Thursday, July 25, 2002

The NY Times talks about the loss of privacy as search engines get better and better. The article raises an interesting question: should K-12 students' work be posted on public web pages, if ten years later those students, now in their 20s, learn that their schoolwork constitutes a significant portion of the web hits on their name? Of course, this is only an issue for students with fairly distinctive names, which raises another interesting question: is it wise to give your newborn child a distinctive name, or is it better, and more private, to blend with the crowd? 10:05:37 AM

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