Is this really new? I believe privacy issues have just gotten a spotlight now but I clearly remember a situation that happened involving my sister when she sett

Is this really new? I believe privacy issues have just gotten a spotlight now but I clearly remember a situation that happened involving my sister when she settled in the US more than 10 years ago. I was running a small web host at the time and we just happened to host her website, for free of course. She had just moved to the US, gotten her green card and started a job as a teacher. The school she was working for, or wanted to work for, had investigated her and found her personal website somehow. Even though she was posting under a pseudonym, and the website was hosted in Sweden. I don't remember if it was in Swedish though, maybe not. They objected to certain things on that website, not sure if it was the BDSM links or something about linking to Amazon. Either way, she didn't have a computer at the time so all she could do was ask me to take the website down for her. As I remember it, a lawfirm hade made this discovery on behalf of the school where she wanted to work.