Is Your Site Leaking User Info into Search Results? Get GDPR Ready

What do you do when your site is leaking user information into search results? Well, let’s take a step back and look at what kind of personal information this could be:

  • Form information that contains first name, last name, email address
  • Actual address information, including zip
  • Unsubscribe confirmation URLs that contain email addresses and/or names
  • Online ordering information like what recently happened to Panera

There are a number of ways this information could be seeping into Google’s index.…

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