[tluyben2]

This is a difficult problem to solve unless you can remove stuff about yourself from Google and other platforms. Which won't happen as that would be expensive manual work for the platforms. I cannot imagine what happens to the gigs of info young people post online (about eachother and themselves) that will be mined in 10-20 years by companies and used for evil.

Since I said something in an interview to push a particular business agenda and had that used against me since then in all kinds of contexts, I make sure nothing more appears about me online. I cannot really understand how something I said or did (in this example: I was cto of a services company and in the interview I mention I like services more than products, which, at the time I did; this is no longer true) in a business setting 10 years ago is relevant to something I do now but clients and investors bring it up.

Makes it kind of weird how straight up criminals get positions and investments time and time again even when they have 100s or 1000s of news articles from actual reputable press against them...

[3np]

There actually is a process to remove yourself from Google Search results.

https://support.google.com/websearch/troubleshooter/9685456?...

https://support.google.com/websearch/troubleshooter/3111061?...

[codingdave]

Those are not describing a process you can go through - they are telling you manage your robots file and handle your own content security if you own a site, or talk to the site owner if you don't own the site, and then gives very narrow conditions about removal if you cannot get the site owner to control the content.

[xg15]

Isn't this more or lesss what the EU's "right to be forgotten" initiative was about? To my knowledge, GDPR also contains legal provisions that let you enforce deletion of your data.

How usable this is in practice when entire industries depend on preserving that data is another question...