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Discuss privacy rights and whether there is an issue of privacy when information is

posted voluntarily on the Internet.

Would employers using these sources for background checks involve any sort of

discrimination?

Professor Harold Abelson has explained rights, privacy, and the Internet as follows:

$"$In today's online world, what your mother told you is true, only more so: people

can really judge you by your friends." $*$ In which school of ethical thought would

you place Professor Abelson in relation to his views on this question of the Internet

and privacy?

Do employers have a responsibility to adequately screen their applicants before

hiring?

Describe how an organization can protect the hiring process against the unlawful

use of social media information.