Most online forms are simply lead-generation collection for illegal staffing agencies, silly scams, or asshats social-engineering market data. Other forms ret

Most online forms are simply lead-generation collection for illegal staffing agencies, silly scams, or asshats social-engineering market data. Other forms retain detailed sensitive information for marketing/business-intelligence reasons, or ask flat out illegal questions only a naive kid would answer (targeting those who are vulnerable to legal exploitation). A long time back, I would take the effort to expunge information from staffing services masquerading as company contacts (some places have data retention laws). As experience taught this was the number one warning sign for internal toxic business cultures, low ball compensation packages, and position instability. If the first thing a company does is discriminate, manipulate, and or deceive... you likely won't want to work there... Again, please consider becoming a plumber , as it is the reductionist logical dream of all techs =)