Removing your personal information from people-search sites can feel pretty overwhelming. There are hundreds of these sites in the U.S. alone. In fact, the Privacy ...

Having your personal information pop up online in various places can be quite annoying, especially if it's things like your phone number and email address. It can be difficult to remove, too, as it ...

Once something is on the internet, it’s almost impossible to take it down. But Google now makes it easier for anyone to request the removal of their personal information from Google’s own search ...

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Google has announced several updates to Search aimed at making it easier for people to control information about them that appears in results. The company released a tool last year to help people take ...

Many social media sites offer options to help protect your privacy on the Web. You can make your profile private, which won't allow anyone you haven't approved to see your information, or you can ...

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While Google has steadily strengthened its privacy and security stance, many users may not have noticed the gradual rollout of new privacy resources. Now Google is making it easier than ever to take ...

Google has been pushing out a tool for removing personally identifiable information—or doxxing content—from its search results. It’s a notable step for a firm that has long resisted individual ...

Google will soon make it easier to remove your personally identifiable information and explicit images from search results right from Google Search or the Google app. This can be done with the help of ...

Google has been offering the Results About You tool since 2022 and updated it once in 2023. A part of Google Search, the tool looks for your personal information online and lets you request its ...

You can now request to have your sensitive personal information removed from appearing in Google search results. The removal may not scrub it from the web entirely, though. If you’ve ever Googled ...