Why Google's "right to be forgotten" is key to your job search
Modris Reinbergs
Hospitality Hotel Recruiter Club Restaurant Chef , restaurant & Cruise line & Culinary recruiter, CORPORATE Hospitality recruiter, Spa, Housekeeping & Financial Directors, Middle East, APAC, Asia, Australia, Philippines
Prospective employers will Google your name before giving you the offer. All your great past will come up in the results but there may be one, two or more deleterious posts that may block you getting the job. You can dispute inaccuracies and outdated negative information on your credit report. Why not on Google search results? Well now you can, but only in Europe. Google is complying with European court orders. We need them in USA, Canada, and in fact every country. Check your Google search results and call your Congressman.
"Google has launched a service which allows Europeans to ask for personal data to be removed from online search results. The move comes after a landmark European Union court ruling earlier this month, which gave people the 'right to be forgotten', the BBC reports.
The right states that links to 'irrelevant' and outdated data should be erased on request, according to the report. However, Google said that they would review each request and balance privacy rights of the individual with the public's right to know.
The company added that it will look at whether the results include outdated information about users, as well as whether there's a public interest in the information."
Posted by Modris Reinbergs, Hospitality Recruiter and Financial Economist.
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9yDear Modris and Kristi, Google has agreed to remove unwanted information on personal lives in India after it was found that they were doing incalculable harm and damage thanks to prospective employers looking at it .
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9yGoogle should do the honorable thing and apply that rule across the board regardless of country. If it is good for Europe, it should be good for the US, Canada and world citizens. Who does Google define "outdated information"? Outdated after a week, month, 20 years...?