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Personal information in the 21st century

We’ve all heard the horror stories of people getting their identity stolen and having piles of bills to pay, but after reading a privacy quiz on darkreading.com discussing how your personal information can be bought and sold by just about anyone who has it I felt a little uncomfortable. Sure most of the answers I would have gotten correct, and of course I don’t provide such information unless I absolutely have to, but as someone who likes their privacy that was certainly a depressing quiz.

It also brings up the question of how recruiters handle candidate, and for that matter, company information.  I know that we view our information as strictly "for our eyes only" and keep it secured as best we can.  However, I have to imagine that it's legal somewhere for recruiters to sell this and if it's legal you can expect someone to be cashing in on making a few extra bucks from their "research".

Posted on Tuesday, May 20, 2008 at 06:07PM by Registered CommenterTheVoiceOfIT in | CommentsPost a Comment

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