Net Users Try to Elude the Google Grasp
“ These days, people are seeing their privacy punctured in intimate ways as their personal, professional and online identities become transparent to one another. Twenty-somethings are going to search engines to check out people they meet at parties. Neighbors are profiling neighbors. Amateur genealogists are researching distant family members. Workers are screening co-workers.
“In other words, it is becoming more difficult to keep one’s past hidden, or even to reinvent oneself in the American tradition.”
Of course, Israel has never had a tradition of obscurity – like most small countries, I guess, everyone knows everyone else, or at least their cousin.