Timeline for Is what someone publishes on the Internet fair game when considering them for employment as a programmer?
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| Nov 17, 2010 at 11:55 | vote | accept | Jon Hopkins | ||
| Nov 16, 2010 at 14:45 | history | edited | Matt Ellen | CC BY-SA 2.5 | edited body; edited body |
| Nov 16, 2010 at 12:57 | comment | added | Matt Ellen | @Rox: also, just because you can find it doesn't mean you will. My point is that I don't think most customers will search for the details that Jon Hopkins found. But I am assuming things about the behaviours of customers I know nothing about. | |
| Nov 16, 2010 at 12:55 | comment | added | Matt Ellen | @Rox: I don't lump Google stalking in with stalking, as it's not normally harmful, and most Internet users will do it at some point. It's just a turn of phrase I use when looking up details about someone by using Google, because if you're not relying on the information they gave you then you are snooping on them. | |
| Nov 16, 2010 at 12:32 | comment | added | Rox | @Matt: I suppose the boundary between normal searching and 'stalking' could be difficult to define, but as long as the information is public and easy to find, it should be presumed that anybody, including a potential customer, could find it. | |
| Nov 16, 2010 at 12:14 | comment | added | Matt Ellen | @Rox: Have you got to someone's Myspace page through reading company literature? If you got there by taking someone's name from a company website and Googling them, then you Google stalked them. But if you're correct, that Google stalking is prevalent, then the risk is quite high and so the Myspace page should be taken into account. | |
| Nov 16, 2010 at 12:12 | history | edited | Matt Ellen | CC BY-SA 2.5 | added 466 characters in body |
| Nov 16, 2010 at 11:59 | comment | added | Rox | @Matt - I have found that more and more people research the company online, and if you consider linked profiles it's pretty easy to find information without 'stalking' | |
| Nov 16, 2010 at 11:29 | comment | added | Jon Hopkins | @Matt - isn't there a third factor: the potential impact if it is discovered? If that's high enough then the very low likelihood is somewhat balanced out. | |
| Nov 16, 2010 at 10:58 | history | edited | Matt Ellen | CC BY-SA 2.5 | added 363 characters in body |
| Nov 16, 2010 at 10:49 | history | answered | Matt Ellen | CC BY-SA 2.5 |