How to remove your phone number, email, and home address from Google Search. Protecting one’s privacy seems almost impossible in a world where so many companies track you online or where there’s a camera in every pocket. Add the hackers who want to steal personal information, and you realize the internet can be a terrible place. But there are ways to protect your privacy online, and Google just rolled out a useful Google Search feature that lets you remove your phone number, email, and home address from Search results. That’s an incredible new feature, one Google Search should have added long ago. Before I tell you how it works, I’ll list a few limitations you should know. First , you must share with Google the personal data you want it to keep track of. That’s the phone number, email, and home address. That’s the only way for Google Search to monitor the web and notify you when this information pops up online. Secondly , the feature is limited to the US for now, so interna...
