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This source card preserves Google’s policy for removing private PII and doxxing content from Search as it appeared on 15 July 2026.

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Google accepts requests concerning addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, certain identity numbers, and other private records. Its doxxing category covers a URL containing either:

• personal information together with explicit or implicit threats or calls to harm or harass the person; or
• a significant aggregation of personal information without a legitimate purpose.

Google may refuse where it considers the material newsworthy or otherwise in the public interest. If it grants removal, the result may be removed completely or only for queries containing the person’s name or identifier.

This policy process is separate from European data-protection de-referencing. A page containing criminal information and an address can therefore justify two requests with different legal theories: one based on the strict-necessity test for criminal data, and one based on personal information, doxxing, and safety risk.