Artie Beaty reports:
If you find your personal information online, like your phone number, address, or email, Google is making it easier to make sure it doesn’t show up again.
Several years ago, Google introduced a “Results about you” tool that lets you track your personal information online and remove it from search results. It wasn’t exactly easy to find this tool, though, because you had to dig deep into the settings menu to see it.
Now, you can request removal straight from Google Search. Here’s how to do it.
How to remove your information from Google Search
When you see a result with your personal information, click the three dots next to it, and you’ll see a menu with information about the link, including a “Remove result” button. Choose that, and you’ll see different options for why you want it removed.
At the top is “It shows my personal information and I don’t want it here.” Choosing that option sends the page to Google for review. If Google decides it violates policy, it will be removed from search.
Read more at ZDNet.
If anyone tries it, let us know whether it worked successfully for you or not.
I shouldn’t need a google account for them NOT to steal my data.
If I don’t login to a online service, then, by default, they shouldn’t capture anything. We need a privacy law to cover that.
Saying we need to login to have data they shouldn’t have captured defeats the purpose of NOT wanting a company from having any data about us.