What do you do when Google gets a hold of information you have on the public web that shouldn’t be there? You take them to court, of course. A North Carolina county school system, who had students’ social security numbers available on an unprotected site, filed an injunction against Google to have the cached pages removed. They also claim the Googlebot crawler somehow accessed password-protected content. Search Engine Watch has more coverage.
Compare to the infamous Tuttle incident involving another clueless administrator, or even the oopsies at Ohio University with personally-identifying information. And anyone thinking the school’s tactics were inappropriate, keep in mind that with Google, such sabre rattling has produced results in the past.
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