The US government believes it is a good idea to look at profiles on social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, GitHub, and Pinterest before offering a job.
The new directive came from Mr. James Clapper, director of the US National Intelligence Agency (NSA), which recognizes that social media files can be as important as interviews that are being made to find a job.
The private sector, of course, in America has already done so for some time. Until 2012, more than half of employers controlled public records on social networks of potential workers.
This one photo you on Facebook can understand a lot, especially if you're holding a bong in one hand and a beer in the other…
Government investigators will (theoretically) keep the pretense. They will not be allowed to ask codeaccess, nor ask you to log in to your account. In addition, they cannot look at your private information messages. Certainly not to create accounts"honeypot” to try to trick you into befriending them.
If all of the above is true, the intervention is less invasive than that of the private sector, which has sometimes asked for Facebook passwords to continue hiring. Nevertheless it is an interference with private data…
The above story, published by ZDNet, reminds us how careful we should be in everything we upload on the internet. If you are thinking about making a service that requires security controls, it would be a good idea to clear your public e-ID.
