Streisand effect
The increase in attention to information caused by attempts to suppress, remove, or conceal it.
Psychological reactance: A motivational response in which people resist perceived restrictions on their freedom. Attempts to hide information can provoke people to seek it out.
Barbra Streisand: An American singer, actor, and filmmaker whose career spans music, film, and theater. Her lawsuit supplied the name and defining example of the effect.
Church of Scientology and the Internet: A history of efforts by the Church of Scientology to restrict online distribution of its texts and related materials. Legal and technical takedowns sometimes drew more attention to the targeted texts.
Streisand effect in public relations: The risk that efforts to control a damaging story will increase its visibility and public scrutiny. Organizations can worsen reputational harm by making suppression itself newsworthy.
Forbidden fruit effect: The tendency for restricted or unavailable things to seem more desirable. A suppression attempt can make the targeted information seem more worth finding.
Streisand v. Adelman: A 2003 California lawsuit in which Barbra Streisand sought to remove an aerial photograph of her home. The legal action brought attention to the photograph it sought to suppress.
Barbra Streisand's Malibu home photograph: An aerial photograph of Barbra Streisand's Malibu home, taken for a public coastline survey. The image had little attention before the lawsuit made it widely discussed.
Right to be forgotten: A legal right, recognized in some jurisdictions, to request removal of certain personal information from search results. Removal can serve legitimate privacy interests, though publicity may sometimes increase exposure.
Social media: Digital platforms that let users create, share, and respond to content across networks. Rapid sharing can amplify attention once a suppression attempt becomes news.
Kenneth Adelman: An American photographer who documented the California coastline in the California Coastal Records Project. His coastline photograph became the target of Streisand's lawsuit.