Missing Privacy in Job Searches

Your privacy on job boards is taking a hit from a couple different areas. It is another reason to “live your life on the front page of a newspaper.”

Both courtesy of Cheezhead (http://www NULL.cheezhead NULL.com/) (Hey! I’m naturally attracted to the name since I was born and raised in Wisconsin), a blog that watches the job market.

First, Jobster unilaterally changes their privacy policy (http://www NULL.cheezhead NULL.com/2007/08/21/jobster-on-privacy/) giving you an opportunity to opt out:

And if unilateral changes in the policy aren’t enough for you, you can have your records stolen (http://www NULL.cheezhead NULL.com/2007/08/20/monster-trojan-horse/) too:

According to Symantec security analyst Amado Hidalgo, a new Trojan horse called Infostealer.Monstres has stolen more than 1.6 million records belonging to several hundred thousand people from Monster Worldwide Inc.’s job search service.

How’s your front page?

Scot

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