Google now alerts you if your contact info appears online

Better decades late than never.

- ALAINA YEE

Back in September last year, Google launched a way to remove search results showing personal contact information—details like your home address, phone number, and email address. You could make the request from any method of accessing Google search, then monitor the status of your request(s) from its new Results About You tool. But you still had to stay on top of search results about you. Now the company has rolled out some updates to the tool to alleviate some of that work (and stress)—as well as introducing a further way to protect your privacy online.