Plea to ban employers trawling Facebook

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FYI this in the UK ....

Plea to ban employers trawling Facebook

A powerful coalition of children’s charities is urging ministers to make it illegal for companies to trawl Facebook and other social networking websites for information on prospective recruits.

They say that employers and educational establishments are known to be browsing the internet looking for “digital dirt” on young people who have applied for positions.

The eight charities acted partly in response to a report in The Times that revealed one in five employers used the internet to check on candidates, and two thirds of those who did said that their decisions were influenced by what they found.

A senior tutor at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, had also said that he used Facebook to check up discreetly on applications for a college position.

Piss on them, they should not post their lives on the Net via Facebook, MySpace or others ....

no expectation of privacy on public web sites .........

Here is a Smart Cookie:

I'm using my Facebook & LinkedIn profiles specifically so potential employers can see I am a serious professional. I fully expect them to look me up, they would be negligent if they didn't.

Liz, Bristol,

Recently the charities won a powerful backer when Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the British scientist who created the world wide web, said that online data and web history belong to the individual who put them there. But he warned young people to think carefully about what they put on their sites, because others saw it as common property.

I thought Al Gore'd Invented the Internet

Found it :

Tim Berners-Lee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

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But sometimes you end up with folks doing this to you for shiats and grins:

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