Your personal details on the internet can make you susceptible to frauds and cyber scams. Today, such scamsters can perform tricks by knowing just a few of your personal details and you might end up losing your hard-earned money. Even a simple Google search could reveal your mobile number, address, or email address to strangers. Not only does this expose you to unwanted calls, spams, you might even face risks like identity theft. However, you can easily check and remove your personal information lying on the internet, using Google’s built-in privacy safeguard called ‘Results about you’ tool. Using this feature, you can find out if your personal info, like your home address, phone number, or email address shows up in search results. If found, you can request their removal directly from Google’s index. Google’s ‘Results about you’ toll scans the web, alerts you to matches, and helps you hide sensitive data.How to use Google’s ‘Results about you’ tool to remove personal info This simple Google tool can decrease the chances of strangers coming across your private information lying on the internet. However, you must know that the ‘Results about you’ feature does not erase the data from the original website, for which you would need to contact the site owner. Here’s how to remove your personal details from Google search: Step 1: Find ‘Results about you’ -Open the Google app and log in with your email. -To open the ‘Menu’, click your Profile picture or initial. -From the ‘Menu’, select ‘Results about you’. If using it from mobile web or desktop: Go to Results about you, select Get started or Settings. Enter your name and the personal info that you want to find in search results.ET Online