You can indeed request the BBC or Telegraph to take down articles under similar circumstances. For example in most European countries you can't publish a kind o

You can indeed request the BBC or Telegraph to take down articles under similar circumstances. For example in most European countries you can't publish a kind of "where are they now?" article that picks a few random '80s criminal cases, and tracks down the whereabouts of the people 30 years later. That kind of article, showing that a certain person (mentioned by name) now works as a web designer in Aarhus, while another person (also mentioned by name) has moved to Germany and is a welder, etc., would be seen as an invasion of privacy by gratuitously digging up and publishing this kind of 30-year-old information without a current public-interest justification. It doesn't come up often with respectable media outlets, because they have mostly internalized this norm anyway, and wouldn't run such a story. But I could imagine a tabloid or daytime TV show doing something like that, if it were legal.