Using social networks like Myspace and Facebook as part of a background check currently falls into a legal grey area.\u00a0 Apparently this activity is lacking any precedence in the judicial system which means it is risky.\u00a0 I’m not naive, I suspect most companies Google candidates to see what they discover.<\/p>\n
Recruiting Trends provides an article<\/a> that describes one area where trouble may arise:<\/p>\n There are anecdotes on the Internet of false postings under another person\u2019s name \u2013 a sort of \u201ccyber identity theft.\u201d If anonymous information is posted, such as in a chat room, there is the new phenomena of Cyperslamming (sic)<\/em>, where a person can commit defamation without anyone knowing who they are.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n What if some of the information you discover is incorrect?\u00a0 This could be a tremendous problem with legal ramifications.<\/p>\n In case you are a bit skeptical (I was), read this:<\/p>\n One rule to remember<\/strong> As I mentioned, uncharted waters so be wary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Using social networks like Myspace and Facebook as part of a background check currently falls into a legal grey area.\u00a0 Apparently this activity is lacking any precedence in the judicial system which means it is risky.\u00a0 I’m not naive, I suspect most companies Google candidates to see what they discover. Recruiting Trends provides an article that describes one area where trouble may arise: There are anecdotes on the Internet of false postings under another person\u2019s name \u2013 a sort of \u201ccyber identity theft.\u201d If anonymous information is posted, such as in a chat room, there is the new phenomena of Cyperslamming (sic), where a person can commit defamation without anyone… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,33],"tags":[199,902,901],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-r6","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nIf a website is searched by a background screening firm on behalf of an employer, then consent and certain disclosures is mandated under the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n