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Well, let me ask you this: have you ever successfully returned a genie to its bottle? I thought so. Unfortunately, it would probably be just as impractical to even try to find and delete all copies of stolen data that’s been spread across an unknown number of sites, including some on the dark web.

Even getting private references removed from search engine results can involve a long, uphill struggle with no guarantee of success. Thanks to the GDPR, European residents can request help from Google using the Personal Information Removal Request Form. But you can never be sure how that will turn out, and sometimes submitting your request can make things worse. Considering taking down an offending website? Are you sure you even know how to find all the copies? Are you aware, for instance, that the Internet Archive project (https://archive.org/web/), as of this writing, hosts historical versions of more than 376 billion web pages? I’ve actually used the project to recover lost data from 15-year-old iterations of my own sites.