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there is now officially no recourse to have your privacy protected ?

You could change your name.

Not that this is a definitive solution -- it's obviously rather painful to have to change the entire rest of your identity, rather than simply filing off the offensive part. And (for example), it won't get you off the sex offender registries that have proliferated in the USA, because you'll get arrested if you don't update the registry with your new name. But it would certainly be more practical than trying to "remove a drop of food coloring from a swimming pool", to steal Doctorow's metaphor.




It would be sad if it came to that, especially for wrongly convicted people.

Changing your name is not just some paperwork, there is a pretty strong psychological aspect to that.




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