Telephone number, e-mail, postal address … It is now possible to ask the search engine dereferencing pages comprising this type of information.
Le Monde
This is a discreet but significant change for Internet users: Google announced, Wednesday, April 27, that it was now possible to request, under certain conditions, the dereferencing of pages comprising personal information such as a telephone number, An e-mail address, a postal address or confidential connection identifiers.
“Internet continues to evolve – information may appear in unexpected places, with new ways of instrumentalizing it – therefore our protection policy [of users] also needs to evolve”, Written in a blog post The world policy of Google Search, Michelle Chang. Objective displayed by the company: limit harassment or “doxxing”, this malicious practice consisting in tracking down information relating to a person’s privacy and displaying it publicly on the Internet, in order to harm him.