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TL;DR Google will now let you remove more personal information about yourself from Search results.
You can now check and remove search results that include your passport, Social Security, and driver’s license numbers.
Google is also making it easier to flag and remove non-consensual explicit images.
Google is giving you more control over search results about yourself. In addition to your email address and phone number, you can now find and remove search results containing information like your driver’s license, passport, or Social Security number straight from Google’s results about you hub. Moreover, Google is making it easier to remove any explicit images of yourself from its image search results. Here’s how the new tools will work.
To remove Google search results related to your driver’s license, passport, or Social Security number, you’ll first need to add this information to the results about you hub. If it’s your first time using the tool, click on “Get started” and add the personal contact information you wish to monitor.
Google says over 10 million people have used this hub and that it deploys advanced security protocols and encryption to keep the information you provide safe from misuse.
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Once you enter your information, Google will scan search results and alert you via email or the Google app (whichever you choose during setup) about where this information can be found.
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