Google makes it easier to remove your personal data from the search results

If you ever google yourself and don't like what you see, you have a recourse. Google's results about your tool, which was first introduced in 2022, received an update that makes it easier for you to apply for the removal of search results that contain your personal data, including outdated search results, which are no longer relevant for you.

The update provides a new hub that shows you all the results that are related to you that may appear online. (You have to register to register for this function, but as soon as you do this, Google will proactively monitor the search results for you and use relevant results in the hub for your review)

In addition, Google adds that a result will be removed when people look for them. Tap the three points next to a search result, and “Remove this result” is displayed on a new menu option. You must select a reason for the distance (shows personal data that you do not want to publish, you have a legal reason that you want to be removed), and Google checks the request and decreases the result if it corresponds to the necessary qualifications. You can also request Google Recramal website to obtain current information about you.

You can imagine the results of Google about you as a kind of compromise between the company's wish to collect and share all imaginable details and the growing desire of the public for privacy. It is not a legal right, the way the law of the European Union is on forgotten laws, but it is an option to push a little back from your information that you may not want to be published – provided Google agrees to your request.

If you would like to register for your personal data for the active web monitoring of Google and request distances, you must register for results. To do that:

• Register in your Google account
• Choose “Manage your Google account”.
• Select “Data and Data Protection”
• Open “my activity” and select “other activity”
• Scroll down to “Results about you” and tap on or click on “Manage results about you”.

From here you can set up your settings “Results about you”, including all names you want to monitor (including nicknames and maiden names) as well as telephone numbers, addresses and e -mail addresses that may be connected to you. You can then set up notifications so that you can choose how often Google updates you via results that contain your information.

As soon as you have registered, you can access the results from the same dashboard. Remember that Google can reject your inquiries when it decides that the information is considered “valuable to the public”. But it never hurts to ask. In this case it is about everything you can do.