Thursday, October 23, 2008

The danger of putting information on the web


A Sydney Telco employee was caught faking illness for his absence from work when his employer was able to access and see Kyle Doyle's facebook status update of "Kyle is not going to work, f--k it im stll trashed, SICKIE WOO!" While this is quite an idiotic move on the part of the now unemployed Kyle, it incites the issue of how much information one should release into the public sector on the internet. As our guest lecturer was saying the other day, information once put on the web is public and can ultimately be never made private again. For more information the story can be viewed here.

1 comment:

Suzanne Levinson said...

I would take his advice to heart. Five years ago I was NOT hiring people who boasted of their drunken marathons on MySpace or Facebook -- and they listed their websites on their resumes!!!