Here are three links from Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft that will allow you to erase your internet history.
People can request that any search result be deleted or removed from online search engines like Google. In other words, you can ask for the deletion of a user's digital history so that it does not affect you in the future. But to what extent can traces be removed?
Preventing your past from being discovered online is possible, but it is not always enforced. This right, in particular, has limitations that must be addressed.
This right, commonly known as the "right to be forgotten," allows users to delete certain personal data that appears in internet search results via the various available search engines.
Individuals can exercise this right if the information is false, outdated, irrelevant, or violates their rights to honor, privacy, or personal data protection. If these conditions are met, you can make a request for it.
In fact, not everything vanishes. For example, Google explains: "We will only remove content from search results that is related to your name." Other search results may still contain content related to your name that we have removed.
According to the European Court of Justice ruling (issued on May 13, 2014), a copyright infringement against a search engine does not cause information to disappear from the internet. Simply put, it only affects the results displayed in searches—for example, if you search for your own name. However, it does not remove the page from the results or from the original source.
It should be noted, as AEPD explains, that "the sources remain unchanged and the result will continue to be displayed when searching for any word or term other than the name of the person concerned."
How to apply
To exercise this right, you must contact the company that processes your data or the search engine specifically. This is primarily because data protection regulations require this when a user wishes to exercise this right.
If you want to go to a specific search engine, these are the specific solutions for options like Google, Bing (from Microsoft), or Yahoo:
These requests ask users to provide the specific URLs where the content they wish to have removed is displayed. You will also need to provide a description of your relationship to the content and explain why you want it removed. It's also important to provide the search query, for example, if it's related to your first and last names. Therefore, any information you provide will be extremely helpful in processing your request.
