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[ PRIVACY Forum ] The Obama Background Check Questionnaire
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Thu Nov 13 12:39:48 2008
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The Obama Background Check Questionnaire
http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000470.html
Greetings. So you want a top job with the upcoming Obama
administration? You'd better be ready to bare your soul! A
background check questionnaire for upper-level applicants to the
Obama team has surfaced
( http://lauren.vortex.com/obama-background-questionnaire.pdf ).
It's a monster set of interrogatories, probably raising the level of
arguably very intrusive questions -- relating both to the applicant
and their family -- to a new level for such a document.
I do understand why the Obama team may feel it prudent to require
the answering of such a "comprehensive" set of queries. But I also
wonder how many qualified and talented people may be unnecessarily
excluded based on their unwillingness (or inability -- some of the
Internet-related questions are doozies) to plow through that
Godzilla of a questionnaire or expose so much of their own (and
their loved ones') personal lives.
You be the judge.
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein
lauren@vortex.com or lauren@pfir.org
Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800
http://www.pfir.org/lauren
Co-Founder, PFIR
- People For Internet Responsibility - http://www.pfir.org
Co-Founder, NNSquad
- Network Neutrality Squad - http://www.nnsquad.org
Founder, PRIVACY Forum - http://www.vortex.com
Member, ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com
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