Google to Remove Private Medical Records From Search Results
- Internet giant will pull data after people request action
- Health joins revenge porn as a removable information category
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Alphabet Inc.’s Google has quietly started removing a new category of online content -- personal medical records -- from its search results, a departure from its typically hands-off approach to policing the web.
Google lists the information it removes from its search results on its policy page. On Thursday, the website added the line: “confidential, personal medical records of private people.” A Google spokeswoman on Friday said that such information is only pulled when the company gets specific requests from individuals.