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A background check would presumably look for an arrest and/or conviction record. I would hope that simply finding a phone number on a website an individual set up making allegations for which there is no other evidence wouldn't be used by employers to screen candidates. If that were to happen, wouldn't that be easy to assure one's own employment by posting unsubstantiated deleterious comments about others? (I know that one doesn't always know the names or phone numbers of other applicants, but certainly when it comes to careers such as doctors and lawyers the people know the names of their fellow students and/or interns.) I know that many employers will now look at what people post on Facebook and the like, but it's very different to judge someone based on the information he posts about himself rather than an isolated allegation made by an anonymous poster on some website.

 

I agree with you on a theoretical level, maninsoma. The limits you speak of should be observed. But "should" is an interesting concept.

 

I think in reality more and more information that is on the web will became a factor in hiring and in job evaluation, even if it is not legal or ethical to use it directly. If information is out there, it is a safe bet that someone is tracking it down. It is a very short step to using it.

 

I think of routine google checks which anyone can easily do which yield all sorts of information -- addresses, phone numbers, anything reported in the press online, real estate transactions, political donations, and on and on. Much or all of which is public record, but now instantly available. A truly skilled researcher can probably construct a fairly complete profile of your whole life from just a few shreds of information. Think of what you can discover simply with a person's name and city of residence. Add a telephone number and you are really off and running.

 

And that's just the internet. IMHO the most serious aspect of the ongoing story about the NSA and related government and quasi-government agency information gathering is that they will soon have the capacity to record every electronic act we do, and likely the data associated with it. If they don't already. And it is just a short step to the employment of that data. Every year, probably every month, the capacity and speed of information collation grows, and the temptation to use it will (perhaps already has) become too great to resist.

 

This sleazy Indian operation may be a lifting-of-the-corner-of-the-curtain moment.

 

It is really worth a thought, what we are possibly getting ourselves into when we reveal personal information.

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