Proxyservers, statistics and usability

When realizing there is such a thing as web visitors statistics many people feel very bad at ease. I can understand that – I do not want my footprints on the net to be recorded. I do not want my Internet habits to give background to commercial campaigns for example. I can see more and more people are hiding from web statistic programs like Google Analytics - they only show up in server based statistics.

Some people use free proxy serves when they want to hide their identity. There are several free proxy serves to use on Internet. Just surf around. But keep in mind that most of them do not work as great as they say...

I do not want to be found on Google maps

There is a new EU law proposal concerning information we chose to share - social networks for example. The day we decide to quit it should be easy to be erased - at all sources. It is called "The right to be forgotten - On Internet". I have however expanded that title to a lot of other Internet integrity problems. The following is about involuntarily presences on Internet.

I do not want to be found on Google maps. I do not want my kids name and home address to be found on Internet. I do want all these data to be deleted. But I cannot!

At two separate occasions I have been reminded how vulnerable we are on Internet. On two separate occasions I have tried to get rid of mine and my families information on Internet. I am not talking about information we have chosen to share - I talk about personal information every Swedish citizen find about themselves on Internet without any kind of consent.