You are being followed: The business of social media surveillance

Re:You are being followed: The business of social media surv... by ChuckMcM on Friday May 20, 2016 @10:35PM (#11742918)

Generally what you are asking for is not currently possible. You can make requests of search engines to not show links, you can send DMCA takedown requests to places that have photos, and you can plead with forum mods to delete your posts. You can ask the Internet Archive to delete pages about you.

But none of that protects you when some kid who made a copy of things and posts them again and again on some random forum site like one of the chan sites or some other home grown forum. Eventually it will be indexed again and you'll be back trying to whack it out of existence. Sorry.

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Re:You are being followed: The business of social media surv... by xyzzy123 on Saturday May 21, 2016 @12:57AM (#11743268)

Yep, as mentioned above, often "chaffing" is a more realistic approach. Sowing confusion is easier than refuting or censoring.

Often you can't take back what you said, BUT you can change e.g a non archived profile image to associate comments with a fake account.

Related question: is it best to give a child a unique, or very generic name?

Currently I lean towards generic, as unique names or pseudonyms can be created on demand.

All of this intersects in interesting ways with "real name" policies IMHO

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