Thursday, March 8, 2007

Privacy and "the Google"

This story was kicking around JDjive yesterday, but I finally got around to reading the actual story today. To make a long story short, a female Yale grad was badly smeared on an anonymous law message board, which she believes resulted in her getting a total of zero offers after 16 interviews. More info on the story can be found here. Heated discussions on the issue can be found in the comment sections here and here.

Aside from the legal issues concerning defamation and internet chat rooms/boards, I think the issue lurking behind the scenes of this story (i.e., how the lack of privacy on the internet may directly affect one's job prospects) is extremely important, and is only going to grow more so as employers increasingly begin to troll face book, myspace, the google (to borrow a Bushism), and the blogosphere before making hiring decisions.

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