The school name of many middle schools in Hong Kong has been renamed by spoofing on Google Maps.Call for a prank person not to follow the trend. At present, some school names have returned to normal.
Comprehensive reports of the Hong Kong Sing Tao Daily and the Internet media "Hong Kong 01", some Hong Kong netizens have recently discovered that the names of many middle schools in Hong Kong have been maliciously modified."Women's Prison", Lingnan Hengyi Memorial Middle School was changed to "Lingnan Funeral Pavilion", Xiumao Ping Gaolei Middle School was changed to "Gao Lei Martial Arts and Boxing College".The school was once "temporarily suspended".
There are some mobile apps connected to Google Maps, such as Uber, Kyoba, Lalamove, Gogox, etc., when using the map search and positioning of the program, it will also display the changeable name.
Some netizens scolded boredom, saying that "the joke is not like this", but some netizens laughed and thought it was no harm.
The principal of the middle school, who is unwilling to name, said that it was notified by the school teacher on Thursday (September 19) in the morning, and then applied to Google for business ownership and recovered the correct school name, but Google needs at most to spend spending at most.It can be completed in five days and criticized the name of the netizen's spoofing school.
The principal of a middle and Western middle school in the school named in the school name said that the incident was "inappropriate prank" and was extremely disrespectful to the school.There is also a school that this phenomenon is helpless and believes that the incident reflects the importance of information literacy.
The Hong Kong Education Bureau reported that the bureau has received reports from individual schools. The Education Bureau is very concerned and learned that some schools have or just ask the relevant platforms to revise as soon as possible.The Education Bureau will continue to monitor the incident and keep in touch with the school.
In an interview with Google Hong Kong, I said that we have taken measures to prevent the map function from being further abused. "In fact, allowing users to contribute content can help us maintain the authenticity and reliability of map information."The platform noticed that the original content of users occasionally appeared in Google Maps and will actively deal with it as soon as possible.
In fact, the phenomenon of "spoofing school name" of Google Maps originated from Taiwan earlier.
Comprehensive Taiwan United Daily Free Times reported that from Tuesday (September 17), some netizens found that many schools in Taiwan were renamed. For exampleHonggang Ming Prison "and the National Beimen Agricultural Workers in Jiali District were renamed as" National North Gate Mantra College "according to the well -known Japanese animation spell.
The Tainan Jiary Police Branch said that the school name was chaotic and chaotic may involve the crime of obstructing reputation, and will take the initiative to contact the school that is spoofed and investigate and deal with it.
