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Sunday, June 15, 2008
Courts - "A lesson for every Internet user: Nothing is private"
An editorial today in the Seattle Times begins:
THE roiling water in which Judge Alex Kozinski finds himself should be a lesson for every Internet user: Nothing is private.Kozinski, the chief judge of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, last week suspended a trial on a Los Angeles obscenity case when the sexually explicit contents of his own Web site were reported by the Los Angeles Times. That this learned man, one of the highest-ranking federal judges, sometimes mentioned as a worthy candidate for the U.S. Supreme Court, would be stung by an all-too-common pitfall of the online world should make everyone rethink their online habits.
A 2006 Career Builder survey found that a little more than half of hiring managers who used Internet searches to screen job applicants eliminated candidates based on what they found. The rate was 63 percent for those using searches of social-networking sites.
School districts and law-enforcement officials, including Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna, repeatedly try to drive home the point about the vulnerability, especially of children, when too much is revealed on the Internet.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on June 15, 2008 01:22 PM
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