Tags: Advertising, Google, India, Microsoft, Online Advertising, Sabu George, Sanjay Parikh, Yahoo

Google, Microsoft and Yahoo asked to ban gender selection product advertising

Indian courts have asked the search engine companies Google, Microsoft and Yahoo to stop showing online advertising related to gender selection products.

India already has laws which ban tests that allow people to know the gender of their unborn kids.

Activist Sabu George spoke about the campaign against these online advertisements: “These companies are making a lot of money by doing highly targeted and selective advertising of these products. Our petition seeks to block these advertisements.”

Sanjay Parikh, the lawyer who filed the original complaint added: “The court has issued a notice to Google, Microsoft and Yahoo asking them to reply to our petition.”