> You can't take back emails or phone calls and you can't ask people to take your name or information out of a book or magazine once it's been available for yea

> You can't take back emails or phone calls and you can't ask people to take your name or information out of a book or magazine once it's been available for years. None of those things are going to turn up in a Google search 20 years from now - there's a relatively limited number of people who are going to dig up this information and send it to your employer, or use it to commit crimes against you. Privacy is not binary, as much as it's nice to think about it that way - something I've only told 2 people I trust is decidedly more private than something I've published to the world, and something I've published online and then removed is more private than something I've left up.