Have you ever searched for your name on Google and found it among the searches information or photos that you would prefer to remove? Well from today it is possible. Google has indeed announced new tools for managing personal data online. These also include a feature that alerts you when your personal information, such as your phone number, email or address, appears in Google search results.
The new feature is called “Results about you” and also allows you to request the removal of the page containing your personal data from Google results. It is currently not yet available in Italy, but has been officially launched on the American market
How to remove personal information and photos from Google searches
“About You” will be available to everyone who has a Google account. Users will be able to request free monitoring of your personal information. In this way, Google will notify users of any personal information about them that may be disclosed online. A first scan, as reported by American users who have tried the functionality, could take a few hours.
At that point the service will return a fairly precise picture of all the information on your person present online. Obviously Google will not be able to automatically remove all unwanted information present on third-party sitesbut you can hide them from Google searches, so they don’t appear.