Google Forgets but not Facebook States should allow erasure of search engine results but not social media data Ambrose et al 12 Meg Leta Ambrose, doctoral candidate, Nicole Friess, JD, LLM, associate of Holland and Hart LLP, and Jill Van Matre, JD, associate director of University of Colorado’s ATLAS institute. “SEEKING DIGITAL REDEMPTION: THE FUTURE OF FORGIVENESS IN THE AGE” 11/6/12 [PDI] Legislatures could enact laws that limit a potential A second possibility is to limit the use of personal information. employers’ ability to search for or consider online information about a potential applicant that is older than a designated period.395 An employer may have an interest in how an employee reflects upon the company to the world through a search engine, but less of an interest in how he or she reflects upon the company to a smaller group of connected people on Facebook. An employer digging around in applicants’ social media profiles that are not publicly available is different than an laws might distinguish between employer searching for public information easily retrievable through a Google search. Thus, searching publicly available information, and seeking to obtain information only available through social networks or other more private spheres.
Google Forgets but not Facebook States should allow erasure of search engine results but not social media data Ambrose et al 12 Meg Leta Ambrose, doctoral candidate, Nicole Friess, JD, LLM, associate of Holland and Hart LLP, and Jill Van Matre, JD, associate director of University of Colorado’s ATLAS institute. “SEEKING DIGITAL REDEMPTION: THE FUTURE OF FORGIVENESS IN THE AGE” 11/6/12 [PDI] A second possibility is to limit the use of personal information. Legislatures could enact laws that limit a potential employers’ ability to search for or consider online information about a potential applicant that is older than a designated period.395 An employer may have an interest in how an employee reflects upon the company to the world through a search engine, but less of an interest in how he or she reflects upon the company to a smaller group of connected people on Facebook. An employer digging around in applicants’ social media profiles that are not publicly available is different than an employer searching for public information easily retrievable through a Google search. Thus, laws might distinguish between searching publicly available information, and seeking to obtain information only available through social networks or other more private spheres.
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