Google has expanded a policy that will let people ask for even more personal information to be removed from Google Search results.
Media-Twitter has spent the last several days gripped by a provocative story in The Washington Post that unmasked the owner of “Libs of TikTok”. That’s the name of a controversial TikTok account that has become something of a rallying point online for conservatives. Because of that, Post reporter Taylor Lorenz decided that the Internet needed to know the name of the person behind it. That led to round after round of online discourse. Largely, about whether what Lorenz did was tantamount to doxxing the Libs of TikTok creator. So what’s this got to do with the Google Search announcement we alluded to? Well, these events aren’t related — at least, not directly. But you can’t help but note the timing of a new announcement from the search giant, which decided to take this moment to let victims of doxxing know the following. Google is now promising to help them remove even more personally identifiable information from Search results.
