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Should Employers use the Net to Vet?

on 2 September, 2010 - 15:21

The German cabinet is set to approve a bill that will prevent employers from using Facebook and MySpace to check a potential candidate’s eligibility for a position.

Australia is one of the most prolific social networking countries in the world, however, the new Fair Work Act 2009 has no provisions to prevent the use of social networking sites with public profiles to check job applicant information.

 

With new industries such as “reputation management” designed specifically for using social networking sites for checking future and present employee profiles, are we opening ourselves up for privacy or indirect discrimination suits?

 

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Yes Watch Your Footprint

Submitted by Lawrence Martin on 3 September, 2010 - 08:25.
Recently Google experts were herd advising some young people that latter in life they might have to change their names, identities as such to hide from the history they had created for themselves in cyber space. The opening is definitely there. Especially in countries like ours where personal privacy laws are virtually non-existent.