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New tool allows more control over what appears when your name is Googled - ABC listen

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Just how much information about you is sitting on the internet?

If you popped your own name into Google how do you feel about what comes up... any surprises?

To coincide with Privacy Awareness Week, the juggernaut search engine has released a new tool today that allows you to request the removal of concerning search results. 

Professor of Internet Studies at Curtin Uni, Tama Leaver, explained to Jo Trilling how the new "results about you" tool works.

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Broadcast 7 May 20247 May 2024Tue 7 May 2024 at 7:30am

Perth, Privacy, Identification Technology

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