Google: New Options For Removal of Personally-Identifiable Information From Search

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Google has introduced new ways to request removal of personally-identifiable information or doxxing content from Search. This is different from the E.U. "Right to be Forgotten" in that this is personally identifiable information. See below some examples.

Requirements to remove personally identifiable info

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

Doxxing content removal includes

Requirements to remove doxxing content

For us to consider the content for removal, it must meet both of these requirements:

1. Your contact info is present.
2.There’s the presence of:

Explicit or implicit threats, or

Explicit or implicit calls to action for others to harm or harass.

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[Sgt_Kickaxe]

Google is not the law, the law is the law. If you feel unsafe because someone doxxes you CALL POLICE - not Google first. In fact if you contact Google before police can investigate you make the police's job harder. This is a good tool, but if you bel;ieve you're in danger contact police first!