[nurblieh]

I'm reminded of the long-form Wired article, "Writer Evan Ratliff Tried to Vanish: Here’s What Happened" (Ratliff 2009).

  "Along the way they’d also proven my privacy to be a
  modern fiction. It turns out that people — ordinary 
  people — really can gather an incredible dossier of facts
  about you."

It turns out the public's short attention span has it's benefits,

  "But a month later, life was back to normal and no one 
  was taking any interest."

[1] https://www.wired.com/2009/11/ff_vanish2/