[stephbu]

“Remove my details” that asks that I sign-in to Google. Privacy-washing.

[jrochkind1]

Presumably Google also has to know your contact info in order to know you are authorized to request removal of search results containing it...

[fire]

Doesn't mean they need to require a google account to provide that info though; It definitely costs more to maintain a good privacy portal, which is probably why the companies I've seen do it either list an email address in their privacy policy and handle it ad-hoc, or they use one of the P/S-aaS providers that handle the portal ( and the concerns with owning the data for the types validating documentation people provide )