Google announced that it will remove information such as home address, e-mail address, identity and phone number, which make it easier to identify users from search results on the Internet, at user request. So, how are these new opportunities offered by Google to users to be used? What can users do to have their personal information removed from Google Search results?
Google has announced that it will remove information
such as home address, e-mail address, identity and phone number, which make it
easier to identify users from search results on the Internet, upon user
request. So, how are these new opportunities offered by Google to users to
be used? What can users do to have their personal information removed from
Google Search results?
Announcing its new policy on its official blog, the
company says it aims to give users "more say" over their online
visibility in Google Search. In this context, it becomes possible to
remove the confidential information that users use to log in from the search
results.
How to create a request to remove personal information from Google Search
results?
In order to remove personal information from Google
Search results, you must first fill out the request
form explaining which of your
information you want removed . In the request form , you indicate
that the content you want to be removed is in Google's search results
and website by selecting the option to remove the information you see in
Google Search .
At this stage, Google asks you if you have spoken to
the administrator of the relevant site. If you want to talk to the
administrator of the website, No, how do I do that? You can
read Google's referrals from the option.
Otherwise , you can choose No, I don't
prefer and choose personal information such as ID
numbers and confidential documents, nudity or obscene items, content about you
on other sites for profit.
In order to forward these choices to Google, you need
to enter information such as your name, country of residence, addresses of the
web pages that display the content and Google search results pages, and
keywords that enable the relevant content to be found in the search results.
Finally, if you think that your contact information
has been maliciously shared with the intent of threatening or harassing you, you
need to select the Yes option and create your signature.
Removing information from search results does not mean removing it from the
internet.
Google says that it will evaluate the information
removal requests it receives together with the content on the page where the
information is located. It is stated that the reason for this is to
prevent the restriction of access to useful general information for users, such
as news.
The company states that removing information from
Google Search results does not mean removing it from the internet:
"Content may still be available on the web even
if we remove it from Google Search. That is, that content may be visible on the
page on which it is hosted, or may be found via social media, non-Google search
engines, or other means. It may therefore be worthwhile to contact the site's
webmaster and ask them to remove the content. "
Google previously accepted applications to remove
personal information such as bank account information, credit card numbers,
etc. from Search results, which puts users' financial security at risk.
Image removal request for under 18s
The company recently rolled out a new update that
allows people under the age of 18 to request, through their parents or
guardians, that their images be removed from Google Search results except in
strong public interest or newsworthy situations.
This
request form can be
used to remove images of people under the age of 18 from the search
results, and by following the steps listed above, it should be stated that
the content to be removed is the images of a person under the age of 18
at the moment .
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