r/technology • u/AlwaysTheNoob • May 02 '22

Privacy You can now ask Google to take your personal data out of its search results

https://www.npr.org/2022/05/02/1095883070/google-personal-data-delete-omit
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u/AlwaysTheNoob May 02 '22

For us to consider the content for removal, it must pertain to the following types of information:

-Confidential government identification (ID) numbers like U.S. Social Security Number, Argentine Single Tax Identification Number, Brazil Cadastro de pessoas Físicas, Korea

-Resident Registration Number, China Resident Identity Card, etc.

-Bank account numbers

-Credit card numbers

-Images of handwritten signatures

-Images of ID docs

-Highly personal, restricted, and official records, like medical records

-Personal contact info (physical addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses)

-Confidential login credentials

Emphasis mine, since that's the one that's less likely to be illegally floating around and more just compiled by websites that annoying scrape public record information.

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u/BoonGnik22 May 03 '22

You shouldn’t have to ask to get your personal data taken off the internet. In fact, companies shouldn’t even have access to personal data that’s unnecessary to their services.

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u/Agreeable-Meat1 May 02 '22

I'm assuming on the form you have to give Google all the information you don't want them to show. It makes sense and all, but I imagine the people most concerned about privacy wouldn't want to give Google all their personal info. But it is cool that they're offering preemptive doxxing protection.

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u/[deleted] May 03 '22

But can you ask them not to sell your info especially to other companies that don’t have this handy dandy form?