Google is providing are intended to aid users in maintaining control over their personal data, privacy, and online security.
“We have long had policies that enable you to remove non-consensual explicit imagery from Search,” Google wrote in a blog post.
In addition to revising its standards on personal, explicit photographs, Google said on Thursday that it was making it simpler for users to identify and remove results about themselves and that their personal, explicit images would no longer appear in search results.
The leading search engine will launch a new dashboard that will alert users when site results containing their contact information appear on Search.
The new dashboard expands on Google’s “Results about You” tool, which was introduced last year.
It now makes it simple to ask for the removal of search results that include your personal email, home address, or phone number.
By clicking on the image of your Google account and choosing “Results about you” in the Google app, you can use this function.
Currently, the tool is only available in English in the United States, but Google is aiming to make it available in more countries and languages shortly.
Google introduced a protection earlier this year to prevent users from unintentionally running into pornographic imagery on Search.
With this upgrade, graphic or adult content or other explicit imagery will by default be blurred when it appears in search results. This month, the new SafeSearch blurring setting will be available to all users worldwide.
