HOW TO REMOVE YOUR PHONE NUMBER, EMAIL, AND HOME ADDRESS FROM GOOGLE SEARCH.

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 international Google Search users can’t take advantage of it.

Thirdly, and most importantly, Google doesn’t erase your personal information from the internet. It just makes it inaccessible in Google Search. Other search engines might still surface it, so your best bet would be to contact websites once you receive notifications from Google. That would be the only way to ensure you’ve deleted your phone number, email, and home address.

Finally, there may be cases where Google can’t or won’t remove the Search results. Hopefully, you’ll never have to deal with any of that.