FACEBOOK: Just because you end up in the National Archives doesn’t mean that it will become public information.

So you're thinking of applying for a position with the new Obama administration. You've answered the incredibly personal questionnaire and promised that there's nothing embarrassing in your online presence, or maybe you admitted there was, but promised that you could explain it.

Um . . . where will all this end up? Afraid that your life will be an open book? Eamon Javers soothes your worries in this Politico piece about who keeps all these records from 15,000 applicants. The upshot is that while, yes, they may be in the National Archives, they probably won't be public.

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