The current law can't prevent it, but in a civil case, I'd hate to try to prove that I didn't discriminate based on information on a Facebook page. You are not

The current law can't prevent it, but in a civil case, I'd hate to try to prove that I didn't discriminate based on information on a Facebook page. You are not innocent until proven guilty, it's "balance of probability". And given that the focus of Facebook is person information, it's hard to argue that you weren't interested in it. You don't just have the information, you have shown that it's the kind of information you are interested in. Unless you are looking for very specific things (in which case, why didn't you hand it off to a third party?), their lawyer will say you were interested in the general "look and feel" of the candidate. Stuff like age, marital status, religion, what their friends and family are like. All the stuff you shouldn't ask.