Everything related to security and privacy on the platforms and applications we use over the Internet has become key in recent years. One of the companies that tries to help us in all this is Google due to the enormous use that we make of a good part of its services.
Apart from the search engine that surely many of you already know more than enough, this is a company that offers us much more. Most of you will have an account of this technological giant that you use in a good part of its applications and programs. Similarly, Google is considered one of the giants of the Internet and therefore offers some interesting features focused on privacy and security.
In fact now the company has just presented some new features implemented in the Google search engine. One of the main goals of these updates is to help users maintain control of their personal information. This is something that encompasses your privacy and online security. The technology giant itself last year launched a function that allowed us to request the removal of our personal data from search results.
There is no doubt that this was an important step to maintain our privacy online if we wish. But continuing in this same line, now Google wants to go a step further in this same direction. Hence precisely the launch that we will talk about below. Specifically, now the firm improves this tool that we are talking about to help us keep track of our private contact information in searches.
This is how Google helps you with your private data
Perhaps the most striking and at the same time interesting thing about all this that we are telling you, is that from now on Google will notify us when that information is found in searches through its engine. In this way we will have the opportunity from the first moment to eliminate all of it if we want to, to improve our privacy.
This is a novelty that is currently in beta phase and that little by little will reach the whole world. Google plans to roll out this privacy-focused functionality gradually over the next few weeks. So that we get a more approximate idea of ​​its operation, say that the function will consist of a new control panel that will allow us to know if the web results with our personal and contact information appear in the searches.
From that moment and after the pertinent notification that we will receive in the form of a message, we will have the possibility to request its elimination. In this way, what we achieve almost immediately is to delete our personal data from Google search results. In addition, all this can be done directly from the tool provided by the firm.
At the same time in the future we will also receive notifications when new web results containing our information appear. We will have the possibility of accessing all this information just by clicking on the photo of our Google account and selecting the option Results about you. At the moment it is being tested with the results in English and in the coming weeks it will be available in many more languages.
