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Reference Check: is Your Boss Watching? the New World of Social Media: Privacy and Your Facebook Profile

3 Jul 2014

Privacy and Your Facebook Profile Facebook and other online social networks are the Web destinations of choice for more and more people to connect, communicate and share personal information with others.1 While they may have initially started out as networking and recreational tools for young people, online social networks now attract people of all ages.2 The practice of employers looking for back [...] Anything associated with you – or the people you are connected to – can, and most likely will, be viewed and evaluated by other people, some of whom may have considerable influence over your life, now or well into the future. [...] Another common practice that is occurring in the United States is for employers to ask job applicants to “friend” a human resources staff member or to log in to a social network using a 2 Reference Check: Is Your Boss Watching? [...] Some employers have gone so far as to ask candidates to provide them with their username and password.5 This intrusive practice has put many people in the difficult position of having to choose between obtaining employment and disclosing their usernames, passwords and the intimate details of their lives. [...] Facebook’s Chief Privacy Officer Erin Egan in a posting on their blog expressed her company’s opposition to this practice and stated that, “this practice undermines the privacy expectations and the security of both the user and the user’s friends.
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