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Job Search Sites Jeopardize Privacy

A new report has found that some career web sites, recruitment services and automated job-application kiosks do not provide adequate privacy safeguards. The report, authored by Pam Dixon of the World Privacy Forum, states that too many job sites do not keep information posted in resumes protected from third parties. Dixon has urged the Federal Trade Commission and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigate how job and recruitment sites handle personal information.

Report finds privacy holes in digital job searches
The San Jose Mercury, November 11, 2003.