Google will send you an alert if your personal information appears on Search, allow you to request removal

The information includes phone numbers, email addresses and physical addresses.

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Google on Thursday said that starting early next year, it will notify users if their personal information like phone number, email and home address appear in Search results.
Google will soon send alerts to users if and when their personal information appears on Search without consent. At the tech giant's 'Search On 22' event held on Wednesday, Google announced that it will soon launch 'Results About You' feature.

First announced in May, the new feature will give users the right to request removal of personally identifiable details about them on Search, with just a few clicks. The information includes phone numbers, email addresses and physical addresses.

Google on Thursday said that starting early next year, it will notify users if their personal information like phone number, email and home address appear in Search results.


"Early next year, you'll also be able to opt into alerts if new results appear with personally identifying information, so you can quickly request their removal from Google Search," said the tech giant.

The 'Results about you' tool will make it easier to make removal requests of personal information from Google Search, the tech giant said.

Apart from the new tool, the removal requests can also be done globally by anyone using Google's form-based system.
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How To Request Removal Of Information:
The feature has already started appearing for some Search users. With this new tool, if you find your personal information like home address, email address, phone number or any other information on Google Search, just click on the three-dot overflow menu that appears in the top-right corner of each result.

At present, if you wish to remove any personal identifiable information (PII), you need to go to a Google Support page and fill out a form containing the URL you wanted to be removed from the search results.

Removing contact information from Google Search doesn't remove it from the web, "which is why you may wish to contact the hosting site directly, if you're comfortable doing so".

Google had also updated its policies around removing personally identifying information earlier this year.
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