The digital age is easy to leave behind and difficult to forget.
The ‘digital age’ where leaving behind is easy and forgetting is difficult.
Everyone has probably felt embarrassed about a post or comment they made in the past at least once.
But in the digital world, things don't disappear completely with just a single delete button.
Data stored in various channels such as SNS, portals, blogs, etc. remains in search results over time, and that record may affect current reputation or opportunities.
Recently, there has been a steady increase in the number of consultations on White Me saying, “My old post is still showing up in searches,” and “I have a post I want to delete before I get a job.”
Now, 'forgetting' is not just a choice, but is becoming a basic right to protect personal trust.
Are my past records bothering me now?
“It was just a joke at the time” A missed opportunity with past posts?
Customer M who recently visited White Mewas about to have a final interview at a mid-sized company.
Before the interview, while the human resources manager was searching names, a social media post written by the customer 10 years ago was displayed at the top of the search results. The post was a sentence that said, “In the end, only the people who work in teams lose money.”
At the time, it was a joke with my college friends, but when part of the sentence was exposed in search previews, it gave the impression that he was a person who lacked the ability to adapt to an organization.
During the interview, an interviewer asked, “Have you ever had doubts about teamwork?” and it was only then that the customer realized that his past posts had influenced his actual evaluation.
“At the time, I was just joking around, but I didn’t know that my current opportunity would be blocked because of that one sentence.”
The customer eventually went to White Me and requested complete deletion of the post.
📌 The reason why deleting a post is difficult through personal efforts
Why deleting a post is difficult through personal efforts
Customer M initially tried to solve the problem on his own. I searched for a solution and even reported it myself, but the results were the same.
The post appeared to have been deleted, but traces of it still remained in the search bar. I believed it would disappear naturally over time, but the reality was different.
In fact, this problem is not unique to customer M.Most people try one of the three methods below, but none of them are perfect.
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Try deleting it yourself
The deletion process is complicated and the processing speed is slow. If you don't respond within 72 hours, it has often already spread.
Use of public agency procedures
It takes more than 50 days on average, and often ends with ‘blocking access’ rather than actual deletion.
Use a deletion agency
The prices vary, and some are unverified and pose a risk of personal information leakage.
In the end, it is difficult to even know ‘who to entrust it to’ or ‘when it will be resolved’. Time passes, and the problem remains.
Customer M also came to White Me at a moment when he was wondering, “Should I just forget about it now?”
In order to reduce these complicated procedures and anxiety, White Me automates the process with self-developed AI technology to shorten the delay time, and manages the entire process together with the customer until deletion is completed safely.
📌 White Me service to protect individuals’ right to be forgotten
White Me service to protect individuals’ right to be forgotten
As its name suggests, White Me cleanly manages information about me in the online world through an AI-based digital post tracking system.We provide an ‘online reputation management service’ that comprehensively manages the entire process, from requesting deletion to preventing re-exposure.
- Automatically collects identical sentences and images from across search engines and SNS portals.
- Find remaining exposure through preview sentences and AI crawling.
- We will process deletion requests simultaneously based on the Information and Communications Network Act.
- Real-time monitoring is performed to prevent re-exposure within the next 72 hours.
White Me’s AI response system replaces the existing manual reporting process andDeletion rate of over 98% within up to 72 hoursis being achieved.
It is a service that focuses not only on speeding up the deletion of posts, but also on reducing the anxiety and time burden felt by users.
After deletion, the results are visualized and provided through a 'web report', which increases the transparency of the deletion process and allows users to more easily check their reputation status.
📌 The debate over the ‘right to be forgotten’ has reignited, why now?
The debate over the ‘right to be forgotten’ has been rekindled, why now?
in recent years‘Digital right to be forgotten’is attracting attention again.
A concept that was once considered only a part of legal discussion has now spread around the world and has become an important topic for protecting individual human rights and dignity.
In 2014, the European Union (EU) recognized the right to claim deletion of search results against Google and decided to specify the right to be forgotten as a human right.
Following this precedent, similar systems and discussions continued in each country, and Korea is also strengthening related policies centering on the Personal Information Protection Committee.
In particular, a specific protection system is being established, including support for deleting posts by children and adolescents and response to damage from AI composites (deep fakes).
The background of this change is the advancement of technology, and information once made public through AI-generated content/SNS algorithms/automatic backup systems is spreading much faster and more widely than before.
In a world where text or photos from 10 years ago are still displayed when you search for someone's name, 'delete' is not just a technical measure.The right to protect personal dignityIt is recognized as.
In this trend, White Me is supplementing the limitations of public systems and making the right to be forgotten a reality through technology.
Rather than just deleting,We design the entire process from protection to recovery so that anyone can redefine themselves in the online space.I'm helping.
Forgetting is not the end, it is the courage to start again
The right to be digitally forgotten goes beyond the technical issue of simply erasing data; it is the right for a person to rewrite their story.
Being forgotten is not about denying the past, but about getting a chance to rebuild yourself from a new starting line.
Accordingly, White Me combines AI technology and human judgment to integrate the entire process of deletion, monitoring, and reporting.
The digital ecosystem that White Me seeks to create is an environment where anyone can manage their own online traces.
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