Australians Can Have Entries About Themselves Removed From Google

Australians can now easily find where they’re mentioned online and seek to have entries about them removed from search results. This is limited to material containing personally identifiable information such as their phone number, email, or home address. The “results about you” feature was launched on May 8 to mark Privacy Awareness Week. The tool can be accessed through a browser here or on Google’s mobile app by following these instructions. People can also subscribe to receive updates whenever a new entry mentioning them is found, though this was also possible before using the Google Alert feature. When a removal application is received, Google will evaluate the content of the webpage to ensure that it’s not “limiting the availability of other information that is broadly useful, for instance in news articles,” the company said in a statement....