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Google Will Now Hide Personal Medical Records From Search Results (betanews.com)

Posted by msmash on from the about-time dept.

Mark Wilson, writing for BetaNews: Google has updated its search policies without any sort of fanfare. The search engine now "may remove" -- in addition to existing categories of information -- "confidential, personal medical records of private people" from search results. That such information was not already obscured from search results may well come as something of a surprise to many people. The change has been confirmed by Google, although the company has not issued any form of announcement about it.

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  1. Better Question by Voyager529 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Better question: Why are such records stored on servers sufficiently accessible that Google can index them in the first place?