I spent a year deleting my address online, then it popped up on Bing

Then few days before Christmas my near full address popped up on Bing. You search for my (sadly rare) name and the top result is a Google Maps pin to my exact street with zip code and city. I'm still shocked...

I sent a GDPR request to Bing right away asking for the Maps link to be removed/blocked in connection with my name. Bing refused, citing that the public interest to access this information outweighs my right to privacy. At this point I'm not sure what to do next.

German Redditor TimelessStrawberry spent most of a year scrubbing their personal data from appearing online only to have Microsoft's Bing reference a name search with a Google Maps pin for their precise street address. Response to a GDPR request to Microsoft for removaal of references to TimelessStrawberry's name was "the public interest to access this information outweighs my right to privacy".

Suggestions in the Reddit thread include taking up the matter wwith EU authorities, including their MEP, German, and EU authorities, including European Data Protection Supervisor; further requests or legal demands of Microsoft, or data poisoning/data chaffing, amongst others.

https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/kodsjx/i_deleted_my_residential_address_from_any_and/

#microsoft #bing #SurveillanceCapitalism #privacy #gdpr #germany #eu

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