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DELETE YOUR DATA FROM ONLINE SERVICES

Remove your phone number and address from Google

In April this year, Google introduced welcome new options for requesting the removal of your contact data from its search results. Previously, you could ask Google to remove certain information that could identify you, including bank account and credit card numbers, government ID data and explicit or defamatory content about you. This has now been expanded to include deletion of your phone number, email address and home address from Google results, though they won’t be wiped from the wider web.

Go to the support page ‘Remove select personally identifiable info or doxxing content from Google Search’ () and click ‘Start removal request’. On the next page, specify whether the data appears only in Google’s search results or also on a website,

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