What does it mean to do Good? July 29, 2008
Posted by hardly Strategic Concerns
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For you internet technologists out there, the recent news regarding Justice Department Hiring & Promotion Practices raises an age-old question: If what you create is used for bad, Evil things, what will you do about it?
If Google's motto is, "Don't Be Evil" and they know that their search engine or other Internet tools are being used by the Dept of Justice, or the current Administration, to do something illegal, or maybe even Evil, what should they do?
What would you do?
What does the Internet know about you? July 29, 2008
Posted by hardly Online Presence
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Here's a great story regarding recruiting, and the use of search engines to identify candidates for specific roles over at the NY Times today.
Here's the key paragraph that pertains to recruiting, "According to the report, officials at the White House first developed a method of searching the Internet to glean the political leanings of a candidate and introduced it at a White House seminar called The Thorough Process of Investigation. Justice Department officials then began using the technique to search for key phrases or words in an applicant’s background, like “abortion,” “homosexual,” “Florida recount,” or “guns.”
Here's the issue: Any tool can use a tool for bad purposes. The question is not so much that of technology being bad, but that of people being unpredictable.
For you as a candidate, and we're all candidates sooner or later, does the information on the Internet represent you correctly? How will this information help your career, and how will it harm it? Can you predict what will happen 10 years from now?
