Google to launch privacy tools which remove unwanted personal images

[Social Media]

 

Update will also ensure explicit or graphic photos do not appear easily in search results

 

Google is launching new privacy tools to allow users to have more control over unwanted personal images online and ensure explicit or graphic photos do not appear easily in search results.

Updates to Google policies on personal explicit images mean that users will be able to remove non-consensual and explicit imagery of themselves that they no longer wish to be visible in searches.

 

The update means that even if an individual created and uploaded explicit content to a website, and no longer wishes for it to be available on search, they will be able to request to remove it from Google search. The forms to submit requests have also been made more simple. The policy does not apply to images users are currently and actively commercialising.

 

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[stoner]

will the tool also work the other way. allowing those who wish to see such images to still have access. 

 

im talking about images that are not questionable or without consent. 

 

 

Edited August 4, 2023 by stoner

[OneMoreFarang]

19 minutes ago, Social Media said:

users will be able to remove non-consensual and explicit imagery of themselves that they no longer wish to be visible in searches.

The images will not be removed. Googles search engine will not show them anymore. That is a huge difference.