Removing your name & number from Google.

Here's a helpful tip that I found that would help people who want to remove a phone number and address from Google Phonebook. You can use the form that they have here to remove it. It doesn't mean that it's going to be removed from everything on the Web, but at least it can be removed in the Google Phonebook. For those of you who want more privacy, this should help in some ways. But I think it brings up a point that this kind of privacy is becoming less and less common. It used to be that it was actually hard to find people and phone numbers and addresses, now it's much easier. One of the ways to not be found is to have a very common name like Smith. If you do, it doesn't matter if you're in the Google Phonebook or not. It's very unlikely that you can be found in the sea of Smith's.

Does anyone remember the old Monty Python skit on not being seen? There would be guys hiding behind trees and when they popped out someone would shoot them. And after some time, they quit popping out altogether. That's when they began to blow up all the hiding places in the picture. It's a little like that today. You can hide, but they are now special tools that are going to find you anyway, just like blowing up all the hiding places in Monty Python's skit. So I don't know if it's going to do you any good to get out of Google's database of people and addresses. There are still many other sources where we can be found if someone is diligent enough to look for us.

I think over the coming decade privacy will become a primary topic for people. Unlike Hollywood actors, not everyone wants to be noticed. And I know some of them don't even want to be noticed other than in their films. Although there's technically no right to privacy in our Constitution, it's something that we taken for granted and we may have to fight for it a little bit.

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