there have been some complaints in Europe on the 'right to be forgotten'... but that requires a lot of effort. Google is being asked to comply coz it's the gate keeper to many of these obscure blogs. however ensuring that twitter,facebook, instagram and any other random service that may get a hold of your data 'forgets' it is not possible as of now. and it's not even in their interest! So it's unlikely that they will engineer functionality like this unless compelled by the law and then there is the issue of jurisdiction... asking a service to comply comes with issues such as where is the data resident? if data is in europe where privacy rights are respected - maybe, the US? nope... what if someone does what peter thiel is proposing having their own libertarian country somewhere on a floating barge on the openseas - which laws would apply? judges in the US or Europe could not compel companies running off that place to delete you data.
p.s. people have already downloaded the images onto their machines. it's kinda like farting aloud on public popular radio... you cannot ask everyone to forget.

I guess this is a case of mwizi siku zake 40. Pole Ochola, the guy who shared your mistake is not a friend at all!

Depends on many factors. If you are a bigwig like Boniface Mwangi, you can never fully delete yourself.

But that guy for the car set ablaze can try, though it will be very tough, especially with news aggregators like allafrica.com and archiving websites like archive.org and Google Cache keeping duplicate records of everything online. Also maybe those photos could be on apps like Whatsapp and Skype where Google can't trace them...

If you're a simple guy bila mambo mingi ya media, it's very possible