The web giant makes it easier to request that results linking to contact information are removed.
Personal contact information such as your phone number, email or home address, can now be removed from Google search results.
Previously, individuals could remove links to contact information when it had been published maliciously - so-called "doxxing".Google warns that the information will still exist online. "It's important to remember that removing content from Google Search won't remove it from the internet, which is why you may wish to contact the hosting site directly, if you're comfortable doing so," Michelle Chang, Google's global policy lead for searchHowever, websites - particularly those hosting stolen data - may not respond to requests for removal.
The information may also be hosted on websites that are designed not to appear in Google search results, but whose location is widely known by criminals.Google already lets people request the removal of certain types of sensitive information, for example under-18s are able to ask for photos of themselves to be
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