[lbo-talk] your Facebook is their fortune

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Feb 3 08:47:45 PST 2009


On Feb 2, 2009, at 10:31 PM, WD wrote:


> To the extent the data on Facebook is only mined by marketers, I'll
> second the comments from Bill, Doug, et al. But what prevents
> Facebook from selling its data to companies who might then make it
> available to employers or insurance companies? Surely someone could
> come up with a way to use Facebook data to identify people who might
> be union sympathizers, heavy drinkers or whatever. If there's a
> decent slippery slope argument in this case, then people are right to
> be concerned about who Facebook sells its data to

I thought employers now routinely check Facebook to see if there are pix of potential workers doing bongs in the nude.

Doug



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