I’ll test this assertion. What’s my mother’s maiden name? (Now that I think about it, it shouldn’t be too hard to find.)
(And to your point, I literally had to provide it earlier this week to Chase’s fraud department.)
(And to your point, I literally had to provide it earlier this week to Chase’s fraud department.)
Searching your name and city+state in Google shows several websites that collect public records and show relatives. Some include age with names. The only people that showed up as relatives that were plausibly your parents (based on age) were two people: one with your same last name (probably your father), and one with a different name (Klass) (most likely your mother).
Having a pretty rare last name makes it really hard to stay anonymous, especially when you engage in public activities like entering road races, buying a home, and voting. Guess it’s a bit late to start using a pseudonym.
Edit: mylife is insane. I’ve googled myself in the past and this much information didn’t used to be so readily available in search results.
I don’t know how a right to disappear would even work when a bunch of the results are curated straight from public records.
Edit 2: I think if I cared more about this I’d have to engage in a prolonged disinformation campaign to muddy the search.
Actually, no. It only takes 2-3 years to disappear from most casual google searches. I know people always say 'the internet is forever' and for some things it might be, but I was suprised how much of my online traces just faded over time after I started being more careful with my identity.
The worst is doubtless to share an uncommon but not unique name with someone who could plausibly be you who is controversial/a criminal/etc. Pre-Web I went to school with someone who shared a name with a very unpopular figure in the same city. My schoolmate got literal death threats left on his answering machine.