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That is a good point. If any type of legislation should come out of this, it should be about usage of social media data by companies. They should not be able to
by martin_drapeau 9y ago
That is a good point. If any type of legislation should come out of this, it should be about usage of social media data by companies. They should not be able to discriminate people because of things they do in their private lives. In fact, they shouldn't have the right to investigate it unless it relates to the job (i.e. checking that a community manager does in fact use Twitter and Facebook in an efficient way). There may be exceptions but for 90% of the jobs out there - it makes no sense.
- skummetmaelk 9y agoIt's just very hard to make laws against that. There are laws forbidding discrimination based on gender and race, yet we still know that this is commonplace. I personally think it is better to tackle the issue by making it harder/impossible for companies to obtain this data and allowing users to force companies to delete ANY data they have on them by request.
- martin_drapeau 9y agoIt is hard but needs to exist. Discrmination will always exist and its no reason to give up and not have a law. The law is important. Information should be freely available. Making it impossible to obtain would lead towards information control like China and Russia. Its the wrong approach.
- skummetmaelk 9y ago> Information should be freely available. Making it impossible to obtain would lead towards information control like China and Russia. How does giving natural persons control over who has their data lead to information control as seen in Russia and China? It's the polar opposite.