A court in Japan has ordered US online giant, Google to remove its auto-complete feature offered on its flagship home page.

The Tokyo District Court asked the company to remove the feature from Internet browsers. The order comes after a petition demanding removal of the feature alleging that the feature breached his privacy and even cost him his employment.

Google has responded by saying that it cannot remove the feature because the company's policies made in its headquarters in the US cannot be regulated by orders from a Japanese court. It also pointed out that the case does not warrant deleting the suggestions in the feature that are relating to the petition within its house privacy policy.

The man behind with petition approached the court only after the company failed to accept this requests. He decided to take legal actins against the company when he came to know that the feature was the cause of his sudden firing form the job.

He found that when people typed his name on the search engine, certain words suggesting criminal acts appear along with his name and if the computer-suggested words are selected, thousands of portals defaming him appear on the search engine.

Google has only said that the words are automatically selected and does not violate his privacy.