I just read about someone who set his Facebook profile to private before a job interview. During the interview, though, the interviewer started asking about things he’d written on the profile. As the employer was a US state agency, they had accessed it under the Patriot Act. The article tries to frame this as “be careful what you write on Facebook.” I don’t think that’s the key message to be taken from it. Accessing a personal profile explicitly set to private is akin to the employer reading his diary or personal letters. The message should be that this is an appalling breach of confidence, and both the state agency and the Patriot Act are seriously in the wrong.

The article can be found here.

Posted Wednesday, January 10th, 2007 @ 8:32 pm
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