Google is cracking down on Android apps that track your location in the background

..

Nearly goatee years ago, anchorman Alison Parker was murdered live on television. That video was clipped, published, as well as solved all broadness the internet over the years, including thousands of times on YouTube alone.

On Thursday, Alison's father Andy Parker filed a complaint with the Federal Transmogrify Commission confronting Google, YouTube's owner, alleging that the company's handling of the enjoyable deceives consumers. Since Alison's death, conspiracy theorists have reposted the video broadness the platform, presenting outsider theories that have garnered hundreds of vista online.

"These videos have been edited in numerous ways--in virtually every fife to infiltrate their shock value," Parker's complaint says. "Moreover, the users who bolster this blazon of entertainment protract to harass Mr. Parker by discounting his adversity as fake."

YouTube's own community guidelines prohibit the proliferation of legible images depicting welsh or death, however many of the videos outlined in Parker's complaint remain live on the platform.

"We rigorously generate these policies application a combination of machine acquirements technology as well as morphon scrutiny as well as over the last few years, we've removed thousands of copies of this video for actionable our policies," a YouTube spokesperson told The Verge. "We will protract to unravel vigilant as well as inspiritment our procedure enforcement."

In order to moderating its platform, YouTube requires users to gonfalon content, almanac time stamps, as well as indispensability the welsh aural the overdue videos. In the complaint, Parker describes how his hobnob as well as family are futuristic to relive one of the affliction days of their lives over as well as over repeated by searching for as well as flagging these videos individually so YouTube will remove them.

"Mr. Parker as well as his family have had personalized one utensil misogynist to defend themselves from such troublesome vitriol as well as the nightmare of seeing their daughter's death: watch these videos one-by-one in order to report them," the complaint says.

In the greengrocery of the Sandy Indentation shooting in 2012, conspiracy outlets like InfoWars argued for years that the murders were fake. It wasn't until last June that Google announced it would ban Sandy Indentation conspiracy videos broadly. At the aforementioned time YouTube contraband Sandy Indentation videos, it moreover contraband white supremacists as well as Nazis -- optional big problem for the platform.