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3) Your employer, school, social club, etc. has included you in their organization's public directory, and does not offer the option to opt out, nor do they pro
by sillystuff 5y ago
3) Your employer, school, social club, etc. has included you in their organization's public directory, and does not offer the option to opt out, nor do they protect the directory in any way from being indexed / scraped.
- leetcrew 5y agoI think that can be addressed as a more general case of 2). I'm not necessarily saying it's okay that you end up in google's results because your name appeared in some random news article or because your alma mater has a public, scrapeable directory. I'm saying that the responsibility lies with the entity that originally makes the info public, even if that doesn't leave us with a single entity that's easy to pressure. google ought to respond to reasonable requests to delist, but I don't think it's reasonable for it to guarantee that certain types of information never get indexed.
- bcrosby95 5y agoI'm not buying it. The problem is something being public and easily searchable. One of these things came before the other. It's totally Google's responsibility and a problem with Google (or, more generally, information aggregators), not these things that existed for literally hundreds of years before companies like Google came along.