Google makes it easier for users to remove 06 number or address from search engine

Removing personal data from search engine Google is made a lot easier. To combat so-called doxing, users can submit a request to Google to extract more types of data from search results.

More delete options at Google

Google has been offering the option to remove certain data from the search engine for years. This concerns, for example, personal data such as photos of identity documents, a passport, bank account number and similar data. This data makes it surprisingly easy for malicious parties to commit identity theft. The delete options that users get from Google are now being expanded further.

Users can now request to remove web pages from search results. This concerns pages that lead to a home address, a telephone number, e-mail address or other privacy-sensitive information, such as confidential login details. This information can lead to identity theft, according to Google. It should also help against doxing. This is publishing personal data, as revenge against someone.

Google emphasizes that when a request is approved, the relevant information will be removed from Google, but not taken offline. This means that, because Google is the largest search engine, it becomes more difficult to find this data, but it is still possible to get the information through another way. You can submit a request via the web page of Google itself.