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With all the curiosity on real people’s lives, what are the legal resolutions to the posting of personal information on the web in blogs, comments, social event sites.  In just attending an event, people take photos and then post them on the web sites without even asking for oral permission.  What rights do people have in having their privacy and photo be displayed on the Internet for the world to see in their personal time?  This may make some afraid to even attend events.

Is it possible to write a search prevention program to prevent posts from popping up on search engines?   How about a search engine that comprises of information retrieval that deflects for full text searching on indexed data.  If a program like Apache Lucene can be scalable for indexing and ranking searching to provide results in response to particular search terms, is there a search engine that will support a variety of query types including phrase queries, wildcard queries, proximity queries, range queries, and so on that will prevent search results on people’s names from coming up when they do not wish to be searched?  For those who do not know, Apache Lucene is an open-source, high-performance, full-featured text search engine library written entirely in Java, and is suitable for an application that requires full-text search, especially cross-platform.  What are the legalities of giving people their privacy back?