The Sunday New York Times included an interesting article ("Facebook is Using You") that looked at how people's online presence can be used against them by employers, headhunters, credit card companies -- or insurers.
It's just common sense that anyone using a social network like Facebook should be careful of what they say; every kid in America knows that posting a photo of himself hitting the bong could compromise a job or college acceptance.
But this concern goes beyond such obvious indiscretions. Article author Lori Andrews, a law professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law, relates how data aggregation companies, hired by government and industries including insurance, paw through not only Facebook postings, but searches you may have conducted on public sites like Google. The result is this:
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