Success stories/Personal data, defamation and harassment

A smear campaign on forums that ended up reaching his family

Real case · Executive and family · Spain · Anonymised case

A well-established businessman in the property sector started seeing defamatory comments about him on forums and third-party websites, and it did not stay professional: photos, addresses and comments about his wife and children appeared. Nítida filed removal requests with every site at once from day one, and they came down: the family’s details are no longer published and the defamatory content was removed at the source.

Before

Starting point

Content

Defamatory comments about him and private details of his family, photos and addresses included.

Where it appeared

Forums and third-party websites.

Risk

The safety of his wife and children, and his professional reputation.

Goal

Remove all of the content and make sure it did not happen again.

After

Result

Family details (photos, addresses)	Taken down at the source
Defamatory comments	Taken down at the source
Deindex or push down	Not needed
Monitoring	Six months, included in the contract

The challenge

A forum campaign runs on two clocks: reputation, which can wait weeks, and safety, which cannot wait at all. With photos and addresses of the family published, the challenge was taking everything down, professional and private, without ranking or waiting, on forums and third-party sites where nobody guarantees an answer.

What we did

When a case like this comes in, we do not work by topic or in phases: we act on every link at once. By the first or second day, removal requests had been filed with every website and forum, for the personal data and for the defamatory content, and from there they came down while we followed how the case evolved. Everything was removed at the source; nothing needed deindexing or pushing down.

Always in this order: the source first; if that is not possible, deindexing; if that is not possible either, pushing down. Every case is different and every case has a way out; what changes from one route to the next is the timeframe. How we work content removal

Days 1 and 2

Every request filed at once

For the personal data and for the defamatory content, with every website and forum, no phases and no priorities.

Afterwards · route 1 of 3

Forums and sites remove the posts

The family’s details are no longer published and the defamatory content disappears at the source. Deindexing and pushing down were not needed.

Six months

Monitoring included in the contract

In case anything reappears. If it does, it is claimed again.

If this is happening to you

When a forum campaign reaches your family, there is no need to wait until you have decided whether to go to court before starting to take content down; both can run in parallel, with your law firm if you have one. What is urgent is acting on everything at once, before it gets copied.

See the service

Questions

Can defamatory comments be removed from a forum?

In most cases, yes. The forum is asked to remove them and, if it does not answer, the page is deindexed from Google. Whatever cannot be removed is pushed down.

Do I have to go to court?

Not to take the content down. Legal action is a separate decision, used to identify the authors or claim against them, and it can run in parallel.

How do you remove personal details from the internet when someone else has published them?

Each site is asked to remove them under data protection law and, if it does not answer, the page is deindexed from Google. If minors or physical risk are involved, it is handled as urgent.

Case handled by the Nítida AI team

Published October 2026

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