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Fears Google Hire could allow employers to see your entire search history
new.com.au ^ | 4/16/17 | news.com.au

Posted on 04/17/2017 4:42:04 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal

THE tech giant is working on a job site called Google Hire, which could let prospective employers snoop your embarrassing search history.

IN THIS day and age, every boss is going to quickly Google a prospective employee before asking them to come in for an interview.

But now the technology giant is working on project called Google Hire, which The Sun reports will help employers learn perhaps a little bit too much about their new recruits. It will reportedly be a recruitment tool similar to LinkedIn — however, early reports suggest it will be available through your personal Google account. If that’s the case, it will link things like your search history and YouTube account with your job applications, laying it all bare for employers to see.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: employers; google; googlehire; recruting; searchhistory; startpage; youtube
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Your "smart devices" and "smart homes" are not idiot proof.
1 posted on 04/17/2017 4:42:06 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
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To: Roman_War_Criminal; SkyPilot; Lera; SaveFerris

MOTB ping...


2 posted on 04/17/2017 4:42:28 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Won’t happen, because it would be the end of their highly valuable search business.


3 posted on 04/17/2017 4:43:09 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (The Washington Post is Jeff Bezos' Fake News unregulated SuperPAC.)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal
your personal Google account

I think I see the problem...

4 posted on 04/17/2017 4:45:44 PM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

So typing “How to Kill Your Boss” in Google, probably isn’t a good idea.


5 posted on 04/17/2017 4:45:47 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

This is why I use StartPage.


6 posted on 04/17/2017 4:48:26 PM PDT by coydog (Time to feed the pigs!)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Let them look, I could care less.


7 posted on 04/17/2017 4:49:32 PM PDT by jetson
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

“We hold your personal information to the highest standards of confidentiality. We would never sell it.”

Bwahahahaha.


8 posted on 04/17/2017 4:50:10 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: coydog

That’s why I never log into my Google account unless I am updating a Youtube video. And why I do not use my real name on any of my internet postings or accounts.

Google’s Motto: “BE EVIL” (Yes, that is what it REALLY is, and its been obvious for years now). A private Big Brother in league with the government.


9 posted on 04/17/2017 4:51:16 PM PDT by Simon Foxx
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

“Rosie Odonnel nude”
“Barack Obama Pro-American”
“How to sue your employer”

“YEAH BOSS. I think we can delete this resume.”


10 posted on 04/17/2017 4:57:20 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Flinging poo is not a valid argument)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Any Google-based rival to Linked In that exposed this to prospective employers would never be used! But it sounds silly on its face. Other You Tube users can’t see my browsing history either, nor can anyone in Google Hangouts. Why would this differ.


11 posted on 04/17/2017 4:57:21 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: dfwgator

Not just that, but think about all of the tamer searches we might do that would expose anyone. Or, your spouse, kids, or friends use your computer. Imagine all of the searches that would lead a prospective employer to skip you, even though they were not allowed to know. And, presuming you know they had the info, then skipped you, how do they prove they did not do so because of this information. No way they can unring that bell. Is your recourse with Google or the discriminating employer? Bad enough that Google is collecting this and it is being used, but to make it a paid service and share this is simply wrong. Collecting it with ANY links to user identity is simply wrong and should be stopped. If Google can do so and ensure, truly ensure it is anonymous and source not ever identifiable, then fine. But I’m guessing it is otherwise open to anyone—government, lawyers, employers, etc. Can we put this genie back in a bottle?


12 posted on 04/17/2017 4:57:30 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Drain the Swamp is not party specific. Lyn' Ted is still a liar, Good riddance to him.)
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At what point can we go through our boss’s search history?


13 posted on 04/17/2017 4:59:38 PM PDT by proust (Trump / Pence 2016!)
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To: Simon Foxx
That is superficial protection. Your login gives them your IP and your IP gives them your address. Once you or someone logs in via your or another computer they have names. Doesn't matter if you later go to private mode, don't log in or whatever, your IP is tagged to everything and to you.

It would be very interesting to see a rigorous fishing court case that would dredge out all the details about what Google has collected on us by name, social security number, address, IP address, MAC address, and other individual items that can be tracked to us. How they are linked and indexed. I bet the details of that would be sobering. Problem is, short of turning off the computer, phone, and tablet, we are caught, tracked, and documented. I don't think the laws protect us sufficiently, don't require disclosure, Google and others hide behind T&C that no one reads, can read, no understand. About the only time we'll know about or suspect what has been gathered about us is when it is used against us by an employer, by a court, by the government.

14 posted on 04/17/2017 5:03:32 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Drain the Swamp is not party specific. Lyn' Ted is still a liar, Good riddance to him.)
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To: coydog

Bingo

StartPage

StartMail is NOT based in the USA


15 posted on 04/17/2017 5:04:16 PM PDT by ptsal
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To: ptsal

Yep. Startpage. Uses Google but without the tracking and logging.


16 posted on 04/17/2017 5:13:25 PM PDT by Boomer (The MSM and Radicalized Dem Party are One and the SAME!)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

So my guess is that you’ll be able to find the search history of your boss too. If google thinks this is a good idea, they’re bigger idiots than I could have ever imagined.


17 posted on 04/17/2017 5:14:02 PM PDT by boycott
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

From the article:

“It will reportedly be a recruitment tool similar to LinkedIn — however, early reports suggest it will be available through your personal Google account.”

They get to this exactly how?

“If that’s the case, it will link things like your search history and YouTube account with your job applications, laying it all bare for employers to see.”


18 posted on 04/17/2017 5:14:12 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: TexasGator

It sounded like something Google would be very stupid to do, but Google has the data.

If it’s been Gator Mouth denied, however, that lends credence to the suspicion.


19 posted on 04/17/2017 5:17:14 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

as long as I get to see my interviewers history, no problem


20 posted on 04/17/2017 5:18:00 PM PDT by Eddie01 (Is this the old loft with the paint pealng off it?)
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