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Google to warn you if personal info appears in search results

oogle will soon warn you if your phone number, email address or home address show up in search results (see screenshot ). Clicking the warning. You can click a ‘Request to remove’ button to ask Google to remove the information from its results. However, to remove the details from the internet completely, you’ll have to contact the website they appear on.

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