Comments on: Data lives Forever

By: Stacy

Stacy — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 01:11:53 +0000

I have a fairly common name. When I lived in LA a person at the DMV told me there were 26 other people within a 30 mile radius with my exact name. So what happens if someone googles your name, finds something terrible, but it isn’t really you? I’m looking for a new job and I don’t want them to google my name because although there is some great stuff about me on the web, there is another girl with my same name that is in a very sordid industry and of course her name pops up long before mine in search engines!

I definitely agree with you that students need to understand this issue. I show this video to my students at the beginning of each year and they sit there with their mouths hanging open. But, I think the shock wears off and they go back to their ways. Two students at my school just received ISS for something they put on facebook.

By: Allanahk

Allanahk — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:22:55 +0000

I applied for a job recently and told them to Google my name in my CV. I wonder if they will do that???

It would be interesting to ask!!

By: Corrie Bergeron

Corrie Bergeron — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:29:55 +0000

“Online privacy” is an illusion. Assume that everything you do online can and is being watched - by your employer, by Dick Cheney (oooooo….), by some hacker in China.

If you’d have a hard time explaining it to your spouse, your grandmother, your boss, or to a judge, think twice.