 Accessing clients information on internet is something very sensitive and it's very easy these days that just by clicking few tabs you are easily available to see information which is being provided about the client on internet. Now how we can see such kind of information on internet is very easy to understand. These days the most important social media is available to us in form of Facebook, in form of Twitter handle, in form of Instagram or you just type an individual's name and you can search the basics of their information. Or what we can get out of it, what information generally tells us, basically that information is providing us that what kind of a person that is, what kind of the pictures is being displayed on the social media, what kind of introduction he is providing about himself or herself. So basically none of the ethics code for health or mental health professionals specifically address the behavior of mental health professionals as clinicians, as trainers, as teachers or as employers when they wish to obtain information via internet. Basically this is not a code that anyone can stop or access via using internet. So if a mental health professional is curious that he can know about his client and he can better understand his issues by knowing him in a better way, he can easily google his accounts and he can retrieve the information. Searches using public records are lawful and not ethically prescribed. There is no such law on this that you cannot search anyone, you cannot find anyone on the internet and you cannot know about them. However, therapists must be prepared to deal with the consequences of information they discover when not provided to them by the clients. Like if you accidentally search for information about a client, which the client did not directly give to the mental health professional, but the information has been retrieved and shared with him or it has been related to treatment or assessment, then there may be quite serious consequences. Because it is not legal to use this type of information. Although it is not illegal to take information, it is unlawful to refer the information which the client did not directly give to the client for some reason or to retrieve it. Therapists routinely gather information on clients as part of assessment or intake procedures and over the course of their work with them. Their history taking, their diagnosis, their mental status examination, their behavior, recording all of their things are part of a routine to sub-mental health professionals. Traditionally, clients have controlled disclosure of such information except for stories that might attract attention through mainstream media but times are changing now. First people wanted to hide such information from clients but nowadays a lot of people talk about their problems, issues or even their mental health problems on social media. In fact, if there are cases of such incidents, there is a hashtag trend on which people continuously debate over the period of many days and it emerges like a national debate or an international debate. So these days things are changing and we just can't say that a client will keep a secret from any problem at times and put it on social media. For example, in the following case, one therapist has argued that googling has taught him valuable things about the client. The therapist said that he googles about clients and he gets a lot of good information from social media so he doesn't get a routine history taking. And because of that, his usual patient or therapist relationship doesn't get to know about it other than googling. In which he retrieves a lot of information from his office account, workplace, house or social account. He expressed that belief that knowing more about his client helped him to build empathy. The therapist thought that the more you know about your client's personal problems, personal life and his dealings with other people, the better you can build empathy for him. There is a certain behavior that he did and what is the reason for that. The key ethical challenge involves how a therapist handled the client's data and that he or she has been discovering from the internet. The biggest issue here is that when you have a lot of information with you, when you have a lot of access to information, so how you are going to justify how you will use this information in therapy? How will you use this information as proof for the symptoms of that information? Because you have been abused by this person. So that's why you are reacting in this manner. So you should not be meeting with that person or you should be refraining to have a debate with that person on social media. I mean, how do you sum up all that information? How do you pick up the points and bring them to your treatment table plan? That becomes a real challenge to the therapist. If a therapist seeks information of the client rather than taking from the client through other sources. Justifying that can also be an ethical concern and a challenge.