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How anything you've EVER said on the internet could be seen by employers as Feds approve firm
Daily Mail ^ | 6/26/11 | Fiona Roberts

Posted on 06/26/2011 8:55:38 AM PDT by Nachum

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To: Flag_This; Charlespg
Charles' approach would likely prove more gratifying/effective    
61 posted on 06/27/2011 5:01:23 AM PDT by tomkat (| FUbo |)
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To: Nachum

So? If this were 40 years ago, imagine that you published in the local newspaper everything you now publish on Facebook and Twitter. Does anyone expect some prohibition against prospective employers reading the newspaper? Same thing. If you don’t want it public, don’t write it publicly.


62 posted on 06/27/2011 7:19:54 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: Nachum; Slings and Arrows; SunkenCiv

I just wanna go on record as saying that my boss is the warmest, most excellent, most giving humanitarian that Western Civilization has ever known.

love you, man.

63 posted on 06/27/2011 7:46:33 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: A CA Guy
who would want to hire people that dumb anyway?

Seriously, if they think Twitter and open Facebook and MySpace profiles are private, what can you expect them to do with company secrets? "I didn't mean to give away our million-dollar deal, I just tweeted it to tell my friends what I was up to." and "I didn't mean to cause an insider trading scandal, I just posted the upcoming merger on Facebook and didn't know a bunch of my friends were going to buy the stock."

64 posted on 06/27/2011 7:58:51 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: muawiyah
So, this company is going to do a "collected works" of everything you wrote on the net and SELL THAT INFORMATION TO A PROSPECTIVE EMPLOYER. Seems to me that's a commercial use of someone else's property (your words with copyrights), and you can't ordinarily do that without a release from the owner.

But it could become universal that you are required to "voluntarily" sign such a release with your job application. They do that with other similar things, and get away with it because the courts would just say "Well, if you don't want to disclose it, don't sign, and get a job somewhere else." The courts don't specify where the "somewhere else" is.

65 posted on 06/27/2011 8:24:26 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Flag_This
Or one could use the CEO's own software to find and publicize everything the CEO ever wrote on the internet...

It's probably hard coded to refuse to search on a group of people specifically listed in the code. Wouldn't be hard to get around, but it'd be enough to trigger the DMCA restriction on altering the software for use in violation of its license. Then they get their friend the govt thugs on you.

66 posted on 06/27/2011 8:32:35 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Nachum
One of the reports, released to Forbes magazine, flagged an applicant for 'demonstrating potentially violent behaviour' because he'd posted a photograph of him holding a gun on his Facebook account.

Pro-2A job applicants will not be considered. The company will not forward info about religion or sexual orientation, but I'm guessing that political orientation will be in the report.

67 posted on 06/27/2011 8:33:34 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("It is only when we've lost everything, that we are free to do anything" -- Fight Club)
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To: Still Thinking; muawiyah
In the past, some employers have required the applicant to list what blogs, social sites, etc that he may post on, and what his IDs were. ACLU filed suit against the Maryland Corrections Department over their policy of having applicants supply their facebook ID and password so the interviewer could see everything they posted.

Yes, you can choose to omit your FR user ID, but keep in mind that lying on an application can be grounds for termination.

68 posted on 06/27/2011 8:51:15 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("It is only when we've lost everything, that we are free to do anything" -- Fight Club)
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To: fatnotlazy

The article says they have some way of finding you. Not sure how accurate it is though.

But if you use fake names, what’s the point? This sucks as it makes social media now just one big office party that everyone has to attend. All talk will be small talk.

We need FB to step up and sue them or somehow make their network private and change their license agreement.


69 posted on 06/27/2011 8:53:22 AM PDT by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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To: Nachum
The internet has a long memory. I've found posts I made to mailing lists over 15 years ago in google searches.
70 posted on 06/27/2011 9:05:54 PM PDT by zeugma (The only thing in the social security trust fund is your children and grandchildren's sweat.)
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To: fatnotlazy

It is pretty easy. Many people use the same fake name for many different activities.

I discovered a local government official that was posting in the local newspaper (online comments section) about what a great job he was doing. He thought he was posting in a way that nobody could find out it was him.

I even found out he was on sex site soliciting for 18 year old boys and describing himself and posting naked pics of himself. Tied it all in to the car he drives from an auto forum and trips he took from a travel forum where he also posted.


71 posted on 06/28/2011 12:40:28 AM PDT by BJungNan (Spend yesterday's money good, today's money ok. Never spend tomorrow's money)
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