[techmatters]

It is your data - Facebook, Google etc are just custodians of your data and you have the right (under EU law) to have that data removed or anonymized.

The legal requirement is for the information to be published (once) and then, in the normal course of events "forgotten" after a period of time.

It is not the publication that is a concern, it is the permanence of it, and the ease of access that the ruling deals with.