George Lenard On Facebooking Employment Candidates
July 13, 2007
Here are George Lenard's posts on the subject:
Employers Using Facebook for Background Checking: Is It Legal?
More on using facebook et al. in recruiting and hiring (Part II)
Employers Using Facebook for Background Checking, Part III
This might be better suited to Overlawyered than Between Lawyers, but I'm posting it here anyway because it's a great series of posts. One thing I don't see addressed: one of the most powerful features of Facebook (and a host of other social networking sites) is the fine-grained privacy control users have over the visibility their data. Often, only "friends" have access to the kinds of details George discusses. But, lots of people do make their data more generally visible. It's ironic that employment laws are such that though "the public" may be invited to view such information, lucrative damages awards or settlements could be associated with doing so in the context of employment or potential employment.
