In a recent blog post, Google announces its upgrade to the Results About You dashboard. This upgrade brings a ton of improvements to the privacy-focused features, and users might get to use the new features more often. With this tool, users can keep a tab on their personal information that is lurking somewhere on the internet.
Not only can they find such information, but they also can request the removal of this information. Netizens around the world will appreciate this tool, as well as its recent improvements. Now, users can get notifications informing them when anyone searches the internet for their personal information.
The tech company had plans to roll out this notification feature last year, but the plan didn’t see the sun. However, it’s good to know that the notification feature is finally here, along with other necessary improvements. Let’s now have a look at the improvement to Google’s Results About You dashboard.
All improvements coming to the Google Results About You dashboard
When this feature became available last year, netizens that had access to it were joyful. This joy came as a result of knowing that they could find their personal information online and request its deletion. However, there were some flaws regarding this feature and how users can benefit from it.
The major flaw with this feature was that for users to find their personal information, they will need to search for themselves. With this new update, users can find their details without searching for themselves on the internet. This is a very important update as it goes further to protect users’ privacy.
Now all users need to do is input their personal information into the dashboard. Once this is done, the dashboard will in turn pull up all websites that have the user’s personal information in them. From here, the users can then request that this information be taken off the internet.
Also, the improvement to the Results About You dashboard brings notifications to users’ devices. These notifications will tell how many search results on the internet show the users’ personal information. Users can then act on this information and request that the details be taken off the internet. Other updates bring more controls for the family and updated policies on personal explicit images.
However, requesting that personal information be taken down from search will not erase your details from the internet. It’d only help to limit how people get access to these details, hence protecting user privacy. Currently, this feature is only available for usage in the US via the Google App.