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There are two things you can do in cases like this. The first is asking a website owner to delete data they collected on you. That doesn't really apply here. T
by nonameiguess 4y ago
There are two things you can do in cases like this.
The first is asking a website owner to delete data they collected on you. That doesn't really apply here. The places this person's name is published are his own website that has this username as its url, his own Github repos, and published papers of his that were also on his website. No GDPR request is necessary to remove his name from these places because he already owns that data. As seen, he has already started to delete it himself.
The second is asking search engines to delist a result. As far as I understand, this usually has to involve information that is otherwise meant to be scrubbed from public record, like a newspaper article about a conviction that was eventually sealed. You can't ask Google to not index a scientific journal you published to or your public Github repos.
There are, of course, limits to this thanks to public interest exceptions. I don't believe Prince Andrew can ask Google to de-index anything associating him with Jeffrey Epstein. The public has a right to know, too.
In this guy's case, he really seems to be straddling a line. He contributed to open source projects under his real name linking to a Github repo with the same username he seems to reuse everywhere, including here, and also has a website where the url is that username, and it contained his CV with his real name on it along with a publication history with every publication using his real name. Is it reasonable to do those things and then ask Google and OpenAI not to associate the username with your real name?
At what point are you some regular Joe with a real grievance and at what point are you Ian Murdock complaining that GPT knows you're the Ian associated with debian?