Google's New (?) Personal Information Snippets

Have you tried searching for a name in Google recently? You've obviously done your own, but you done someone elses?

Taking Gordon Ballantyne - a former director of T-Mobile as an example. Google adds relevant information below the title but above the page/meta snippet:




The most interesting bit for me is that people's Facebook listings where they mention a sample of the person's friends.

Is this new? Has anyone else seen it? Also, what about an option to opt out, or amend? Do we have the right to opt-out? Should we care?