Comment by ecmascript | Hacker News Reader

Comment by ecmascript | Hacker News Reader

I have already used the "Right to be forgotten", but a lot of websites updates the url as soon as anything about you change. Which means you need to apply again if you for example change address, name or similar things.

Where I am from, there are many websites that display your personal information (social security number, address, phone numbers etc) since the state gives it away for free and there is no way to block this. The fault is really not Googles, but at least this tool lets people get some peace since most of the people where I am from only use Google and when you are removed you are basically invisible.

This is highly annoying, especially when you have been subject to criminals, but I get it. It is hard to block something else than a url.

Why do you downvote me? I shine a light on an actual valid use case for this. The state publishes information that you cannot remove as a citizen.

HN has become so one-sided. I don't even know if I agree with the right to be forgotten but it certainly has had a positive effect for me and probably many others.

I didn't downvote you ... but your post mentions a misterious state that publishes personal information, you don't say what state, you don't show an example and you don't describe what kind of information is being shared ... I think you just got downvoted for not showing any proof / real example of what you describe and the person that downvoted you has doubts what you say is really a thing

I live in Sweden. Hard to show an example without doxing someone.

But here is an search on just such a site: https://www.merinfo.se/search?who=Kjell&where=

Kjell is a common Swedish name, just click on any link and you will see the personal information about this person. Usually, there also pictures outside their homes with Google Street view.

There are many of these sites, and the information comes from the government. The sites have a right to publish this information and there is nothing you can do in order for it to stop as an individual.

The only real solution if you want to be a bit more anonymous is to write yourself on an adress which you don't live on. But that requires you to have such an adress to begin with and will mess with a lot of systems.

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