FTC Okays Social Media Background Check Company

nonprofiteer writes "The FTC has dropped its investigation of a new company that runs social media background checks and ongoing Internet/social media monitoring of employees, determining its compliant with the Fair Credit Reporting Act. So make sure your gun photos are private and that you're not part of any 'Legalize marijuana' Facebook groups."

and it begins

[Dyinobal]

And it begins muahahhahahha. First your boss makes you friend him on face book, now your future boss wants to know everything about you that isn't his business.

Re:Why guns?

[Flea of Pain]

Here you go then, fired for having a few drinks, and one expletive on a private facebook page. [wsbtv.com]

facebook may have peaked...

[romanval]

since they lost 6 million users [telegraph.co.uk] in the last month alone.

People are starting to realize that too much information can be a bad thing. (Aside from how many times you need to hear some long lost classmate bitching about their job or kids).