Google Can Now Monitor Search For Your Government IDs

Search Engine Journal – 10 Feb 26

Google Can Now Monitor Search For Your Government IDs

Google's Results about you tool now monitors Search results for government-issued IDs like passports, driver's licenses, and Social Security numbers.

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You can now use the “Results about you” feature to monitor for your government ID getting leaked and automatically get it removed. That seems like a great feature, but with the main risk being needing to provide that information to Google in the first place for them to check for it.

I don’t trust Google on the one hand, but realistically it is easy to believe that credit agencies and crypto KYC data can be compromised and having an easy way to quickly identify and remove results outweighs the risks of giving it to Google, which they could probably get anyway if they wanted to.

Would you sign up?