"The company announced on Tuesday that you can now use its "results about you" tool to remove your driver's license, passport, and Social Security number from search, in addition to your phone number and address. Once you add your information to Google's "results about you " tool, Google will show search results containing your data, while giving you the option to request removal. Google says it protects the information entered into the tool with "advanced encryption.""
"You can now ask that Google remove an image by selecting the three dots at the top of a picture, choosing "remove results," and clicking on the option that says, "It shows a sexual image of me." Google's updated tool also lets you ask the company to remove multiple images at once, as well as opt-into protections that will "proactively filter out" similar explicit results in the future."
Google expanded its removal options to cover driver's licenses, passports, and Social Security numbers in addition to phone numbers and addresses. Users can add personal data to the "results about you" tool, view search results that contain that data, and request removal of those results. Google says the tool stores submitted information with advanced encryption and can send notifications when new results appear, while noting it does not remove information from the web entirely. The update will roll out in the U.S. soon with plans for other regions. Google also added streamlined removal flows, bulk image requests, and proactive filtering for nonconsensual explicit images, rolling those protections out to most countries.
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