> And of course you can be refused a job based on your social media profile, or whatever comes up when people Google for your name.

I used to spend some time in some car enthusiast forum back in the early 2Ks and after a few years I lost interest, so I stopped visiting. 10 years later, I decided to visit again and noticed that many posts had been made in my name (thankfully, just with my nickname), with horrible things being written "by me". Of course I had no way of knowing that their servers had been hacked years ago, and no recourse.

I can only imagine if there was my real name used on a random server somewhere with some dirt written, uncovered by someone googling my name...

"If it's on the internet, it must be true" is a scary thought.