matkaantytto
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I understand a business looking at your facebook profile if it is open. However, you are able to make a private profile by having friends only, and even a limited profile. For example, having a limited profile on a certain photo album.
I feel that is far too much Big Brother, and that if you have a private profile (and you are careful, such as making sure people don't tag you constantly) then I don't see on what grounds businesses have to overstepping that boundary of privacy.
Also, a business could quickly misjudge something. For example, I work with street youth. I have a limited profile album of these twin boys. They were alcoholics and using marijuana at 8 years old. I have photos of them smoking and drinking, explaining their life stories and how (due to domestic violence in the home) they ended up living more on the ghetto streets than in their house. The album follows them through until they are 12 when they were murdered (a hate crime), and watching them (due to rehabiliation I put them through) get off of their addictions.
Now, a business could look at a picture and say OMG why does a 9 yr old have a drink in his hand? without even bothering to read the caption below or continue in the photo stream -in a limited profile (out of 500 friends, only 55 supposedly have access to that album)
and if anyone is curious I tried for YEARS to put them in the foster system.
the photos are taken artistically, have been shown in National Geographic and other magazines. Have been liked and commented by photographers the world over. The pictures are not taken at some wild party. They are taken right out in the slum streets of little boys trying to escape their world by drink and drugs. The photo captions also explain how I got them to go to rehab and the process we went through as I "held their hands".
When something is set on Friendly Only instead of Everyone and a business invades that privacy it's (in my book) immoral. They can go one step further, but not when privacy settings are in.
As I mentioned, a company can be quick to judge something. Now, I don't condone insane pictures such as being totally wasted or half naked.
We talk here about photos. What if the person isn't hired b/c of their political view on something?
I feel that is far too much Big Brother, and that if you have a private profile (and you are careful, such as making sure people don't tag you constantly) then I don't see on what grounds businesses have to overstepping that boundary of privacy.
Also, a business could quickly misjudge something. For example, I work with street youth. I have a limited profile album of these twin boys. They were alcoholics and using marijuana at 8 years old. I have photos of them smoking and drinking, explaining their life stories and how (due to domestic violence in the home) they ended up living more on the ghetto streets than in their house. The album follows them through until they are 12 when they were murdered (a hate crime), and watching them (due to rehabiliation I put them through) get off of their addictions.
Now, a business could look at a picture and say OMG why does a 9 yr old have a drink in his hand? without even bothering to read the caption below or continue in the photo stream -in a limited profile (out of 500 friends, only 55 supposedly have access to that album)
and if anyone is curious I tried for YEARS to put them in the foster system.
the photos are taken artistically, have been shown in National Geographic and other magazines. Have been liked and commented by photographers the world over. The pictures are not taken at some wild party. They are taken right out in the slum streets of little boys trying to escape their world by drink and drugs. The photo captions also explain how I got them to go to rehab and the process we went through as I "held their hands".
When something is set on Friendly Only instead of Everyone and a business invades that privacy it's (in my book) immoral. They can go one step further, but not when privacy settings are in.
As I mentioned, a company can be quick to judge something. Now, I don't condone insane pictures such as being totally wasted or half naked.
We talk here about photos. What if the person isn't hired b/c of their political view on something?