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Technology: Google brings new technique to remove personal data from Search Results

Google announces new way to personal information (File Photo)

Washington (US): Google has announced an expansion of the list of personal content that it's planning to remove from search results to cover things like physical address, phone number, passwords, credit card numbers, bank account IDs, or photos of your handwritten signatures.

Google is also planning to remove things like 'non-consensual explicit or intimate personal images,' pornographic deepfakes, or links to sites with 'exploitative removal practices.'As per reports from The Verge, Google is providing the new options because 'the internet is always evolving' and its search engine giving out your phone number or home address can be quite dangerous. Here's a list of the kind of information Google has promised to remove.

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