Can You Make Your Sudden and Unsolicited Fame Go Away?
Recent days have produced our latest instant celebrity, Eliot Spitzer’s call girl, Ashley Alexandra Dupre, a.k.a. Ashley Youmans, a.k.a. Kristen. It’s clear from the semi-nude photographs of Ashley Dupre which the New York Post has just published, that going into seclusion does not solve the problem. Although her court-appointed lawyer, Don D. Buchwald, has issued a statement to the press, blasting them for privacy rights violations, Ashley Dupre’s digital life is out of her hands.
Understandably the involuntarily famous may wish to make it all go away. In our digital era is that possible?
Andy Greenberg of Forbes shares some valuable resources to help you make your digital presence vanish in a hurry, which everyone should bookmark, just in case….
Lindsey Thomas’ “Top 10 Reasons To Value Your Privacy,” is a sobering recap of stories of people whose digital presence got them in trouble.