Google’s new search tool will help remove private photos from the web
By ForGeeks In today’s digital age, it’s important to maintain control over your personal information — as the saying goes, once you put something on the Internet, it stays there forever. However, with Google Search serving as a portal to the Internet for billions of users, the company is in a unique position to make a difference. To help users gain more control over their search and privacy, Google has announced a useful new set of tools.
A new set of tools has been announced.
The «Results About You» tool takes center stage among the latest privacy updates to Google’s search engine. The tool, launched last year, allows users to easily request the removal of search results that contain sensitive personal information such as phone numbers, home addresses or email addresses.
The tool allows users to easily request the removal of search results that contain sensitive personal information such as phone numbers, home addresses or email addresses.
Users will now receive alerts when Google finds their contact information in search results. This will allow them to review and request removal of unwanted data. In a few days, a dashboard will be released that will give users access to a centralized hub to control and manage their personal contact information that appears in search results.
Google is also making improvements to keep families safe online. SafeSearch blurring — is a great feature that automatically blurs explicit images, such as adult or violent content, in search results. This extra layer of safety will be available to all users, but it will be enabled automatically for those under 18 years of age.
The Google Search privacy policy has been updated to cover explicit images in personal accounts. You can now remove your own explicit images from Search, which can store them for longer than each site does. The policy covers cases where users have previously created and uploaded explicit material to sites and now want to remove it from Google Search. This will eliminate any traces of such content that may still be available on the internet.
The policy is designed to remove any traces of such content that may still be available on the internet.
Google has also updated and simplified its content removal request forms to make it easier to remove personal information or explicit content from Google search results. It should be noted that this will not affect the content of the host site or other search engines in any way. Privacy policy forms have already been updated and simplified, but the other two features may take time to roll out. SafeSearch blurbs will be released «later this month» and the «Results About You» panel will appear «in the next few days».
