Vanity Searches

In my class Living and Working in a Virtual World we talked about how you can just about find information about anybody. This process is called a vanity search; you can do this through a few different search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and intelius. Just entering your name in the search line and hitting enter searches for everything about you that is on the web. I am finding difficulty finding myself in my vanity search. I did indeed find something with me in it; it was a website that kept track of all the competitors of a martial arts tournament back when I was 8 years old.
It is crazy how much information people on the web can find about you just by entering your name. It gets me thinking, is there any way we can enforce privacy laws with how the web is expanding? I believe privacy laws are not going to change anything, because the laws are not helping anyone keep their information private. With technology growing so rapidly it will be hard to remain anonymous at all. I get kind of nervous thinking about how any information about me is on the web even though I can't find it, I am sure someone else will be able to.
I believe in some ways that having your information is good in some cases, such as if a friend I grew up with was looking to get in contact with me, what other place is better then the internet to find information about me. In other situations I would rather have some of the information about me confidential.