"There are people on the Internet who want to know all about you! Unfortunately, they don't have the best of intentions, but Google has some handy tools to address that, and they've gotten an upgrade today. The "Results About You" tool can now detect and remove more of your personal information. Plus, the tool for removing non-consensual explicit imagery (NCEI) is faster to use. All you have to do is tell Google your personal details first-that seems safe, right?"
"With today's upgrade, Results About You gains the ability to find and remove pages that include ID numbers like your passport, driver's license, and Social Security. You can access the option to add these to Google's ongoing scans from the settings in Results About You. Just click in the ID numbers section to enable detection. Naturally, Google has to know what it's looking for to remove it. So you need to provide at least part of those numbers."
"Google asks for the full driver's license number, which is fine, as it's not as sensitive. For your passport and SSN, you only need the last four digits, which is enough for Google to find the full numbers on webpages. The NCEI tool is geared toward hiding real, explicit images as well as deepfakes and other types of artificial sexualized content. This kind of content is rampant on the Internet right now thanks to the rapid rise of AI."
Google's Results About You can now find and remove webpages containing ID numbers such as passport, driver's license, and Social Security. Users can enable ongoing scans for those IDs in the Results About You settings by clicking the ID numbers section. Google requires users to provide identifying digits to locate matches: the full driver's license number and the last four digits for passport and SSN. The NCEI tool is faster and targets real explicit images, deepfakes, and other AI-generated sexualized content, addressing the surge of such material enabled by accessible AI tools.
Read at Ars Technica
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