Google purges private medical records from search

Scary how susceptible we all are to data leaks and breaches… Also a reminder to stay off the radar of people who have the know how to negatively influence the results for your name or business names. Once the Almighty Google indexes it, it’s here to stay.. except in cases such as these. Scary world we live in.. Now the article..

Very few things qualify for removal from Google’s search results, and according to Bloomberg, that list just grew by one. The tech titan has apparently begun purging personal medical records from results pages — Google didn’t make a big announcement about it, but a new line on its Removal Policies website confirms the new rule. Under the section marked “Information we may remove,” there’s a new entry that says “confidential, personal medical records of private people.”