An article just appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education (found via Slashdot) that closely parallels some thoughts that I recently wrote down the subject of the problems that the ubiquitous recording of life in general and the ease of finding the resulting embarrassing details online might create for the generation recently graduated from college. An example from the article: “Cornell University alumnus Kevin G. Vanginderen, a lawyer, sued the Cornell Chronicle, which is a university-run publication, over a newly digitized article from 1983. The article reported that he had been charged with burglary while a student at Cornell. Mr. Vanginderen found the article after Googling his name and claimed that its new presence online was causing him ‘mental anguish’ and ‘loss of reputation’. But a California judge threw out the case after determining the report to be accurate.” Finally, someone quoted in the article says, “Hopefully five or 10 years from now, people won't be so worried about this, because everybody will have their Internet trail, and it will become more acceptable.” which echoes exactly the conjecture ending my own article.