Indeed, we are increasingly confronted with outdated information taken out of context, from anachronistic news stories to emotional e-mails and compromising pictures that we had long ago forgotten. For example, more and more employers are researching job applicants through Google and social-networking Web sites.
的确，我们日益面临着断章取义的过时信息的威胁：从陈年旧事的报道到电子情书，再到我们早已遗忘的不妥照片。例如，越来越多的雇主正通过谷歌和社交网站调查应聘者。由于往事沉渣浮起而导致有人求职或升职被拒的事例也不在少数。但这些只反映了某人的过去；它们几乎不能提供关于某人现状的准确信息。