Legal issues from any form of social network screening

By Michael Becker | Published: July 8, 2009
This entry is part 11 of 18 in the series Bozeman Privacy Fiasco

Lora Bentley at IT Business Edge writes that even if cities like Bozeman are no longer asking job applicants for social networking and other Web passwords and are screening just the information publicly available online, they may still find themselves in legal trouble.

If, in the process of what some have called "screening" on a social networking site, the employer inadvertently comes across information about the applicant's age, race, family planning, religion or any other protected status, and that information improperly influences the hiring decision, they could then be liable for discrimination on state and/or federal levels.


Bozeman Privacy Fiasco

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