This is pretty common in the reputation management arena too.
Say, for example, you have some criminal charge like assault and it shows up for google searches of your fairly unique name.
A reputation management company can flood the internet with other content containing similar keywords, but a positive context. And links to the content that raise it up the ranks, burying negative info down off the front page of the Google results.
"Frank Billingsly Assaults High Prices by..."
"Bailing Out My Sailboat, by Frank Billingsly"
And, of course, also content without those keywords, but with the name.
The introduction with WW2 era radar and chaff was a great starting point and I think other privacy-related discussions and articles should follow suit: framing the whole discussion in relation to some real-world phenomenon makes it a lot easier to follow and understand, especially for non-technical people.
More and more it seems that we just cant rely or believe internet connected words. Too much doubt
From genealogy perspective a) did my ancestors obfuscate - is the letter my ggggm wrote about family during the revolutionary war true? And b) imagine 4-5 generations from now when they look back at all our data morsels and get totally confused
Say, for example, you have some criminal charge like assault and it shows up for google searches of your fairly unique name.
A reputation management company can flood the internet with other content containing similar keywords, but a positive context. And links to the content that raise it up the ranks, burying negative info down off the front page of the Google results.
"Frank Billingsly Assaults High Prices by..."
"Bailing Out My Sailboat, by Frank Billingsly"
And, of course, also content without those keywords, but with the name.