Google on Thursday rolled out a new policy that allows people to request that their personal, sexually explicit photos be removed from its search results. Google also announced it will begin automatically blurring explicit images that appear in search results for all users globally, an update the company first mentioned in February for Safer Internet Day. The SafeSearch blurring feature is meant to help "protect families from inadvertently encountering explicit imagery on Search," Google said in a press release. Google has been expanding the types of information users can ask to be removed from search results over the past few years. The company only removes information from its search results and not from the source.

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Persons: Danny Sullivan, Sullivan Organizations: Google, Shoreline, Safer Locations: Mountain View , California, U.S