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Employer background service now scours Facebook

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spidey07

No Lifer
Yet another reason to not use facebook. This company essentially searches and scours social media sites, categorizing you, throwing up red flags based on what you like, etc.

http://consumerist.com/2011/06/new-...-background-checks-for-up-to-seven-years.html

The FTC has given thumbs up to a company, Social Intelligence Corp., selling a new kind of employee background check to employers. This one scours the internet for your posts and pictures to social media sites and creates a file of all the dumb stuff you ever uploaded online. For instance, this sample they provided was flagged for "Demonstrating potentially violent behavior" because of "flagrant display of weapons or bombs."

The FTC said that the file, which will last for up to seven years, does not violate the Fair Credit Reporting Act. The company also says that info in your file will be updated when you remove pictures from the social media sites. Forbes reports, "new employers who run searches through Social Intelligence won't have access to the materials if they are completely removed from the Internet."
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I don't have anything on my Facebook that's necessarily negative or inappropriate, but I'll be damned if this doesn't piss me off. Might be time to delete the old FB account for good.
 
'The company also says that info in your file will be updated when you remove pictures from the social media sites.'

LOL good luck with that.

Also, the text I post here is now property of Anandtech.
 
Many recruiting/hiring portals already do this to some extent. There is at least one widely used service used by many employers and when I was given access to their hiring portal to look at applicants, it had links to Facebook, etc. already built-in for you to search for stuff like this.
 
IndyColtsFan said:
Many recruiting/hiring portals already do this to some extent. There is at least one widely used service used by many employers and when I was given access to their hiring portal to look at applicants, it had links to Facebook, etc. already built-in for you to search for stuff like this.
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But now it is ready to go en-masse. Privacy is out the window when all the person has to do is order this report at the company's expense.
 
spidey07 said:
Umm, most likely Social Intelligence is purchasing the data from Facebook directly. Privacy settings will do no good.
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Damn! Totally investing in that when they go public. Missed the spying angle.


Deleted mine a while ago. Not because of privacy, but because of lack of use and not giving a shit about people on there. Still, I didn't put a single picture on there that showed my face.
 
I wouldn't work for a company that gave a fuck about what I do on my own free time. I sell them my time for money, what happens during that transaction is their business, everything else is them being authoritarian and fuck authoritarians.
 
Who the fuck cares? Don't post pics of you doing dumb shit online.

I have friends, family, and co-workers on my facebook. I don't post anything on there that I wouldn't say in front of all of them.

If you treat facebook like you would a busy street corner where anyone in public can see you, you won't have anything to worry about.
 
i have co-workers on mine and we totally slate where we work and how we hate it.

nothing to do with them though
 
I'm honestly surprised by what some of my Facebook friends post, especially given the fact that a majority of them are seniors/juniors in college and are already looking for jobs.

As for the attached example, I didnt realize have pics of an assault rifle in your hands was a reason for companies to not hire you..
 
coxmaster said:
I'm honestly surprised by what some of my Facebook friends post, especially given the fact that a majority of them are seniors/juniors in college and are already looking for jobs.
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My wife's friend is 31 and posts nasty comments about her company and boss on Facebook and her blog. We've told her to knock it off and for the longest time, her FB profile was completely open to the public. At least she locked that down, but her blog is still available and shows up on the first page in Google when you search by her name. Some people just don't get it.
 
spidey07 said:
Umm, most likely Social Intelligence is purchasing the data from Facebook directly. Privacy settings will do no good.
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Umm... most likely Spidey07 makes shit up.

Keep this lying to where you and Dave do it best.. P&N.

We prefer the TRUTH here in OT.

http://blogs.forbes.com/kashmirhill...cebook-photos-will-haunt-you-for-seven-years/
The company limits its searches to what’s publicly available, mining data from, in Andrews’s words, “social networking websites (i.e., Facebook and others), professional networking websites (i.e., Linked In and others), blogs, wikis, video and picture sharing websites, etc.).” And a job applicant must acknowledge and approve the use of a social media background screen, just as they would a criminal and credit background check.
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coxmaster said:
I'm honestly surprised by what some of my Facebook friends post, especially given the fact that a majority of them are seniors/juniors in college and are already looking for jobs.

As for the attached example, I didnt realize have pics of an assault rifle in your hands was a reason for companies to not hire you..
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Seriously? :\
 
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