Negative SEO to remove personal information?

MSalty

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So I have a boss who is rather well off financially, he presented at a symposium a few years ago and for some unknown reason they decided to publish his resume on their website.

Now this pdf contains his private information, address, phone number etc. and obviously doesn't want this appearing on the first page of google (currently 8 or 9th) if one of his clients google him. He knows about my history of internet marketing helping pay my way through uni, so asked if there was anything he could do.

I wouldn't normally suggest this given it's a pretty shitty thing to do to a website, but in this case it could be warranted.

Is there any other avenues I could look into before suggesting this? I was thinking potentially a DCMA request to google, but I don't think that would apply to a resume.

Note: he's already tried contacting/calling the relevant people to remove with no luck.
 
These are apply for Europe right? How about certain countries like Asia?
 
I don't know what data protection laws you have in AUS but I know here in the EU you could fuck them up for doing something like that. If giving them a prod does not prompt them to do the right thing then a letter from a lawyer should definitely help out the situation.

You could perform some reputation management to outrank them for his name but ultimately it should be removed entirely. If it contains his personal information there should be no need to leave it up there.
 
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