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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

The Federal Trade Commission has approved a controversial firm which scours social media sites to check on job applicants. It means anything you've ever said in public on sites including Facebook, Twitter and even Craigslist could be seen by your would-be employer.[Snip]It raises the frightening prospect of any social media posting, even it's years old or was meant as a joke, being used in background checks. Applicants who use online pseudonyms aren't safe, either - the firm uses special software to link those nicknames with real, offline names known to employers.

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KEYWORDS: anything; bigbrother; bigbusiness; bigcorporations; biggovernment; ever; internet; privacy; said; stalking
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1 posted on 06/26/2011 8:55:41 AM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

If you use fake names on your social networking sites, how would they know it’s you?


2 posted on 06/26/2011 8:58:08 AM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

The list, ping

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

http://www.nachumlist.com/


3 posted on 06/26/2011 8:58:14 AM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum

What if Anthony Weiner hacked my account?


4 posted on 06/26/2011 8:59:51 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Nachum
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Whatever you do, make sure you show respect and honor for your leader.

5 posted on 06/26/2011 8:59:51 AM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: fatnotlazy

because many times people will also use their home email address as well.

Does little good to be “fatnotlazy” and have your contact email addy as “myrealname@bellsouth.com


6 posted on 06/26/2011 9:00:25 AM PDT by padre35 (You shall not ignore the laws of God, the Market, the Jungle, and Reciprocity Rm10.10)
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To: fatnotlazy

Oh, suppose if someone looked hard enough, they could find almost anyone’s ID. -If they had a reason to.


7 posted on 06/26/2011 9:00:51 AM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum

All of us here will be banned from a goobermint job.

(not that I want one)


8 posted on 06/26/2011 9:02:33 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB ( "I don't want the majority if we don't stand for something"- Jim Demint)
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To: Nachum

too late. already happened to what I’ve typed more than once.


9 posted on 06/26/2011 9:02:42 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Please God, Protect and Bless Our Men and Women in Uniform with Victory. Amen.)
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To: padre35

My email addresses don’t have my real name on them.


10 posted on 06/26/2011 9:04:28 AM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: Nachum
finding the Ceo's and breaking their knees and legs might end this gestapo BS

ooops did I say that?

11 posted on 06/26/2011 9:05:26 AM PDT by Charlespg
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To: Nachum

It seems to be written to imply government involvement.

But this appears to be a private enterprise project that was not STOPPED by the FTC (which should not be regulating private enterprise anyway, IMO).

Am I correct in my second assertion?


12 posted on 06/26/2011 9:06:09 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Nachum

If they tune in on FR they might learn swomething! They may even be posters themselves.


13 posted on 06/26/2011 9:06:29 AM PDT by Paperdoll (NO MORE BUSHS!)
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To: WOBBLY BOB

“All of us here will be banned from a goobermint job.
(not that I want one)”

***

You don’t? Man, you’re passing up some really good benefits...nothing like what the rest of us get (if we get any benefits at all).


14 posted on 06/26/2011 9:06:36 AM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: Nachum

So, what is the technical mechanism used to link a FR name to a Long-form BC name? Can this be done without the cooperation of FR?


15 posted on 06/26/2011 9:07:28 AM PDT by C210N (0bama, Making the US safe for Global Marxism)
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To: Nachum

Yes, I was technically fired for a bulletin I had posted on MySpace over my “13 points against Obama” which I wrote shortly after the 2008 Election. The problem is that I wrote it, my profile was private, and although none of my co-workers were friends of my page, that “Bulletin” somehow made it to my workplace, where I was told I was a “risk” and that even if I reenlisted, I would not be permitted to stay at my workplace and would have to PCS out. I chose to separate from Active Duty and join the Reserve where I could be more politically active when not on duty, and wrote another bulletin that backed up everything I had written with facts. Two years later, just about everything I said has come to pass. But I got labeled a “racist” and a “hate-monger” because I didn’t drink the Obama kool-aid.

The biggest problem they had is that I named the bulleting as a sarcasm to the whole Rev Wright thing: “Rev Wright must be right, GD America” because I was pissed over 2008 results.

I never did get an answer has to who got the bulletin and brought it to the workplace even though I demanded to know. What little sources I have indicate that a poster for DU happened to work in the same Government Agency as me and might have had something to do with it, because portions of my bulletin got posted out there.

Oh well, it’s water under the bridge because I was right. I am proud of the fact that I went “Tea Party” prior to that being made a routine term.


16 posted on 06/26/2011 9:07:41 AM PDT by parksstp (Articulate Conservatives look for Converts. RINO's look for Democrat Heretics.)
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To: Nachum

Have ‘em send me a list, too, so I can put it on my resume!


17 posted on 06/26/2011 9:07:58 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Nachum

If anyone has been dumb enough to give their correct names, information and pictures on the Internet, then who would want to hire people that dumb anyway?

It’s one thing to put a resume out there, it is another to put enough out there to get robbed of your bank accounts and livelihood.


18 posted on 06/26/2011 9:08:38 AM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Nachum

If anyone has been dumb enough to give their correct names, information and pictures on the Internet, then who would want to hire people that dumb anyway?

It’s one thing to put a resume out there, it is another to put enough out there to get robbed of your bank accounts and livelihood.


19 posted on 06/26/2011 9:08:44 AM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Nachum
The lists of those selected for reeducation camps are now being compiled. Have your toothbrush handy.
20 posted on 06/26/2011 9:09:18 AM PDT by JPG (Hey, LSM, how are those emails workin' out for ya?)
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