Google has made a new tool available to let users delete personal information from search engine results. This tool is part of Google’s ongoing efforts to protect better user privacy, as well as its commitment to transparency regarding how it manages data.
Google has rolled out a new privacy feature that will allow people to directly request the removal of search results containing their personal information. As reported by 9to5Google, Google’s Results about You tool, announced earlier this year during its annual developer conference, is now rolling out to some users.
With this new tool, if you find your personal information such as your home address, email address, phone number, or any other information on a Google Search.
As mentioned in the report, the existing about this result panel opens with a new Remove result option that appears at the bottom of your screen. To remove any Personally Identifiable Information (PII), you need to visit a Google Help page and fill out a form containing the URL you want to remove from search results.
You can also monitor the removal progress with your About Results tool. Google has previously stated that when it receives removal requests, we will evaluate all content on a web page to ensure that we are not limiting the availability of other information, for example, in news articles.
If you feel safe doing so, you might wish to contact the hosting website directly since removing contact information from Google Search does not remove it from the internet. Google revised its procedures to eliminate individually identifiable information earlier this year.
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