Dear Lazyweb, what is you opinion to having a CV on your homepage?

There are definitely privacy issues associated with this. Even having your birthday there makes abuse easier. On the other hand, many people will write a blog posting on their brithday and thus expose it anyway.

I’d never put a full CV on the homepage (a good CV is adopted to the audience anyway), just with the bare minimum such as the university graduation and such.

Having some project and research information there might get you some interesting job offers; putting a mini CV there as “teaser” along with the offer of a full CV on request could prove beneficial.

On the other hand, such as CV could be a dangerous source material for “social engineering [wikipedia]” attacks. The maiden name of your mother used to be a suggested backup password for many websites, and is found in some CVs; people tend to trust people more that claim to have been on the same school or university (even if they can’t remember them; especially if they are made feel embarassed by not remembering…).

Where is your privacy limit? How much of your privacy did you expose on the web already anyway? Do you still avoid having a one-stop download of that data? Do you think there is a way back, with all the indexing, caching and archiving of web pages?

My blog does intentionally not have comments; to reply please post in your own blog or email me at erich@debian.org; I read a couple of OSS planets and I’ll also notice if you link to this blog entry and ping technorati.

[Update: first interesting replies coming in - let me quote:

If I do get a call from someone who spotted it (rare, once every 3 months), the recruiter is 99/100 an asshole he isn’t going to ask you to do something you want. Really!

Yeah, I can imagine that. One of the reasons I’ve put up a mini CV is that every few months I’m asked some of these basics usually found on CVs because of my art - I have some poetry on my page that is very popular, and every now and then someone wants to use it in school; teachers always want people to be able to tell something about the author. In such cases, I find it actually worth to highlight that I’m a math and computer science guy, to make people see that it isn’t an either-or thing, language and science.]