Privacy issues in Ubuntu's IRC channels and Launchpad

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I am more worried of people Google-stalking me than Streisand effect.

On 2013-09-22 03:58, C de-Avillez wrote:
> Additionally, one should keep in mind that even if we were to delete
> entries from bugs, or IRC logs, there is the whole wide internet making
> copies right and left...
> 
> Just for an example, bugs comments are archived in the bug mailing
> lists archives (there are *several* such lists, and they sometimes 
> cross
> each other); even more, these mailing lists are (re-)archived in many
> other indexers, elsewhere.
> 
> In other words: once you commented in a bug, or on IRC, it is public.
> It is there to stay. There is NO way to clean it up. Fighting against 
> it
> will go nowhere, and may subject one to the Streisand effect [1].
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> ..C..
> 
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect