Google releases new tool to enable Australians to find their personal information and request removal

Exclusive: ‘Results about you’ allows users to see how they show up in search results and then request removal of details such as phone number or address

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Google has released a new tool that enables Australian users to easily find search results containing their personal information and request its removal.

The “results about you” tool, available for the first time from Tuesday to coincide with Privacy Awareness Week, allows users to see how they show up in search results. They can then request the removal of results that contain personally identifiable information – such as phone numbers, emails or home addresses – via the Google app.

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