You Are What You Post - You can’t erase the Internet

March 18th, 2006 · No Comments

Nice article over on Yahoo Finance about what you shouldn’t be placing on your blog, your exploits and funnies could come back and haunt you.

But Googling people is also becoming a way for bosses and headhunters to do continuous and stealthy background checks on employees, no disclosure required. Google is an end run around discrimination laws, inasmuch as employers can find out all manner of information — some of it for a nominal fee — that is legally off limits in interviews: your age, your martial status, the value of your house (along with an aerial photograph of it), the average net worth of your neighbors, fraternity pranks, stuff you wrote in college, liens, bankruptcies, political affiliations, and the names and ages of your children.

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