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."
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Great more invasion on your privacy, although I do agree you shouldnt post those photos on facebook. Who is to say your friends wont though and then you are screwed...
ReplyDeleteIf you post a picture on the internet, you have no privacy. Simple as that.
ReplyDelete9:23 is right. Not a hard concept to grasp.
ReplyDelete923.....congrats DAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOOHOOOOOOOOO......dan made his first true statement on here EVER!!! Im proud of you dan you're really breaking the mold of typical liberal traflos im so proud of you!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDelete10:46 - Two points.
ReplyDeleteOne - I am not sure how you feel. Had you added a few more hundred exclamation points, you may have gotten your point across.
Two - I don't think this is my very first true statement, but I could be wrong. Since you are the expert on me, please provide examples of when I made misstatements. I am sure you have them all cataloged in your Dan journal.
Thanks a bunch.
The argument is disigenuous with regard to privacy. There is the concept of "going too far" to consider. Being out in public might surrender your claim to 'privacy", but I (and millions of others, too) resent the fact that our picture is being taken at the corner of every intersection. People get drunk and party (legal) and they also might like guns (legal). But to be denied a job because if that because a company has a search program for a social network site is "going too far". More of the "let's SCARE them some about other people's behavior!" We can make money!! Who cares who get hurt, rightfully or not!! And of the BILLIONS of photographs the government and police have taken and stored, have we caught even thousands of criminals?? Answer? No. Is this app going to save employers from a REAL threat? answer? No.
ReplyDeleteNow, Here is where I totally agree with you Imclain. I won't say anymore!
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