By now i'm sure everyone has heard of Facebook or even has Facebook. But how many people are aware of their legitimacy when it comes to their privacy policy. Well Canada's privacy commissioner Jennifer Stoddart presented her annual report to parliament today. Her words of wisdom towards Facebook users, was to "think twice" before sending any messages or wall posts. In 2008 a report was presented to Parliament on the importance of Youth privacy under the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act. Working from this the commissioners main objective this year was to further protect the rights of youth by looking into Facebook.
She stated that many opportunities can be lost from posting a harmless message to your friends. How? Well first of all it can ruin your future job interview, your current job or even school. Your account can be easily obtained by these institutions through Facebook. I think that personal information should not be viewed by anyone else other than yourself. What Facebook is doing is illegitimate they should not be able to display peoples personal lives for their own benefit. They are exposing vulnerable users to the people who are going to judge them the most. Anything can be used against you a wild night out, a harmless post anything!... I find it morally wrong however I guess thats the risk when your dealing with the internet
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what about the media and entertainment industry that looks into a potential employees networks as well as if they have outgoing personalities? Having an active facebook account with lots of pictures, wall posts and friends could be the key ingredient to get the employees the job.
ReplyDeletePeople make their own choices to post that information up though. They even have the choice to hide it from people.
ReplyDeleteYou're right though, it certainly can be ruinous. A buddy of mine was staff for a MP and lost his job when the opposition found a 'racist' video he had done back in highschool on Facebook.