Be careful what you post"
The internet never forgets anything." Thus argues Iain S Bruce.
"Anyone can mess up in real life and recover from the mistake by supplementing it with the sort of good works and solid behaviour that makes people discount their indiscretions, but in cyberspace that moment is frozen in time."
Quoting Paul Allen: "For years to come people will be watching your antics online, but they will do so out of context. That joint you smoked at a student party might well have been a once-in-a-lifetime thing never since repeated, but thanks to the photo a friend put on his web page the event could haunt you for the rest of your days."
This has serious career implications.
In the UK, for example "[a] quarter of the HR decision-makers surveyed admitted to rejecting prospective employees based on personal information found online. "
More seriously, ‘People are losing their jobs, relationships and even their lives as a direct result of exposing so much of themselves online’.
Thus Bruce stresses the need for public education programme focussing on web privacy issues.
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