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Professional Standards
and the Internet
Laws are designed to deliver public safety, privacy, and ensure human rights.
Ethical and behavioral standards are created to carry out laws and ensure
that fairness, openness, and choice (among other values) are employed in
professional endeavors. One problem with using relatively new criteria to
judge eligibility, capability, and past behavior is that the law is slow to catch
up, and the ethical standards and guidelines that normally follow the law
are even slower to develop. Internet vetting, when addressed in the few
standards and guidelines where it is mentioned, has been discouraged,
because of the issues that inexpert collection, assessment, reporting, and
adjudication of Internet search ...