Honestly, there’s little that you can do now to keep information about yourself from being listed online. There are hundreds of sites collecting personal data about someone such as: credit card companies, schools, shopping stores, and other online sites being used. Anyone that goes online knows that there are ads on the side of websites that have your information because they are showing images and other forms of media that you are interested in that they get off of their sites. Personal privacy doesn’t exist online any more unless you don’t have any form of electronics and leave deep in the woods where no one can find you.
The information that people share today online will always be out there for the public’s eyes. Many companies such as career builder and colleges/university are now using the web to look up employees or future student’s profiles or any information they can find before they hire or accept them. This can go one of two ways for the person, either they have a professional, clean profile or they have a profile that will make future employers and school not want them. Many people don’t comprehend the difference between internet sharing vs. F2F sharing of information. You post something on the internet, its open to the world to see it, F2F if that person tells someone else the information will spread slower than that to the internet if it even gets out. With the amount of information sharing sites out there today you can find any kind of information about any one.
Paul -- is this the way it ought to be? Should the corporations have all the control over our privacy? What might be done? What should an individual be able to reasonably expect?
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