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Do you think its fair for companies to spy on you using Google when you apply for a job?

I'm trying to get a job and stuff and a friend of mine gave me this
link

http://www.bruinpied.com/what-is-bruinpied/

This guy got totally screwed by Google and it makes me wonder if its okay for companies to search for you name on Google
looking for dirt on you?

Wouldn't that be like invasion of privacy?

If dirt on you is on Google, start to worry.

When I put my name in, it is all good, but not me. I guess I sell DVDs and still in high school, not me.

I typed my name in before........It says I'm an author........

the only thing that comes up for me is a high school scholarship i once got.

probably better for me actually.

I'm one of the 11 jews killed at the Munich Olympics in '72.

Your criminal record can be looked up at anytime, so I don't see why they would need to use Google.

Originally posted by Victor Von Doom
If dirt on you is on Google, start to worry.


When I put my last name in (it's exceedingly rare), I discovered new, distant relatives, and through them I discovered some family history I never knew.

Bruinpied. Fair? Not to us. Welcome to Earth.

it's worse. Employers are also using myspace and facebook profiles, the latter which they can hack into using illegal tools. Some use online investigators to check out what you've bought and what porn sites you've visited and then don't hire or fire you for "moral" reasons. It's really getting out of hand.

Originally posted by Quiero Mota
Your criminal record can be looked up at anytime, so I don't see why they would need to use Google.

^Same thing I was thinking.

Originally posted by Darth Jello
it's worse. Employers are also using myspace and facebook profiles, the latter which they can hack into using illegal tools. Some use online investigators to check out what you've bought and what porn sites you've visited and then don't hire or fire you for "moral" reasons. It's really getting out of hand. It would seem if you found out about this, you could sue them for invasion of privacy. Don't you think???

I mean who's to say that someone didn't put up a bunch of false info about you?

Originally posted by MrBones
I mean who's to say that someone didn't put up a bunch of false info about you?

Well, if you can chose between someone that has someone putting a bunch of false info about them on the net and someone that....doesn't.....well, I'd take the safe one....

That doesn't make any sense. This is the first i've heard of anything like this.

Originally posted by Quiero Mota
Your criminal record can be looked up at anytime, so I don't see why they would need to use Google.

what it's come down to is that some companies won't hire you for "moral reasons" nowadays. I mean the do google searches, credit records, cookie searches network page searchs. Hell, i wouldn't be surprised to find out that the CIA and FBI sent out their peace group/environmental group/liberal group blacklist to companies.
Hell, if you work for any company owned by ross perot you can be not hired/fired for getting divorced or having a marriage annulled.

If employers knew KMC users' real names, no one here would ever get a job! (then they'd be on KMC all day...or at least until they couldn't afford to pay their Internet bill).

Originally posted by Quiero Mota
Your criminal record can be looked up at anytime, so I don't see why they would need to use Google.

exactly.. you should inform them if you have a criminal record anyway..

Originally posted by botankus
If employers knew KMC users' real names, no one here would ever get a job! (then they'd be on KMC all day...or at least until they couldn't afford to pay their Internet bill).

I don't pay anything for my Internet ...

Originally posted by T.M
exactly.. you should inform them if you have a criminal record anyway..

In AZ, you only need to inform your employer if you've been convicted of a felony. Otherwise, its entirely unnecessary. No one really cares about infractions or misdemeanors.

wow ok way to come into the forum late dave (sighs)
lol ok well when i type in my nickname in google it just shows me shit where i am or have been.
VF, DT, KMC, and once i saw some stats i had in CS.
well yeah u guys have good points.
and the way i see it, if ur boss wants to know if u've been in crap before tell him or her to look it up.
not many people have a clean records, well out of the people i know.