[ALUmnus]

http://consumerist.com/2011/06/new-serv ... years.html

The FTC has given thumbs up to a company, Social Intelligence Corp., selling a new kind of employee background check to employers. This one scours the internet for your posts and pictures to social media sites and creates a file of all the dumb stuff you ever uploaded online. For instance, this sample they provided was flagged for "Demonstrating potentially violent behavior" because of "flagrant display of weapons or bombs."

The FTC said that the file, which will last for up to seven years, does not violate the Fair Credit Reporting Act. The company also says that info in your file will be updated when you remove pictures from the social media sites. Forbes reports, "new employers who run searches through Social Intelligence won't have access to the materials if they are completely removed from the Internet."

Ooops, I think there are a few posters on here who may want to clean up their facebook page. I wonder if they find postings on powerful local message boards.

This I found a little unsettling:

Another profile was flagged for having racist tendencies for clicking "Like" on a Facebook group called, "I shouldn't have to press 1 for English. We are in the United States. Learn the language."

[flamesfilmguy]

so wait that means i'm gonna be in trouble for this?
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set= ... =1&theater