On Jul 2, 2009, at 12:00 AM, RECMGMT-L automatic digest system wrote:

> From: Jay Maechtlen <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: RAINdrip: Your Password, or don't bother applying....
>
> Larry Medina wrote:
>> Well, Bozeman Montana may be thinking about changing it's name to  
>> BOZO
>> Montana after this fiasco:
>>
>> It appears the City was requesting, along with information to  
>> perform a
>> credit check, passwords form your Internet Places of Presence to do  
>> a little
>> research on who you were in your cyber life prior to hiring  
>> someone.   Only
>> took about a week or so for this to sort of blow up in someone's  
>> face, but...
>>
> looking at the application, another thing occurs to me-
> the applicant releases the city from any civil liability due to  
> anything they may do with your info.
>
> That means to me that if they do something stupid with my ss# or  
> other info, I can't sue them.
> ---- yeah, give Bozo the keys to the house, and your wallet too!
>
> regards
> Jay


#1, you can always sue people or organizations.  Can you win??
#2, if people are stupid enough to have a Facebook page and they put  
it out there, then potential employers should be able to see it.  They  
can tell a great deal about you from one look.  Do you disparage  
former employers, do you have inappropriate information that would  
embarrass a future employee? We have seen Twitter hurt companies.  We  
see emails hurt companies.  Facebook has a huge potential to embarrass  
an employer or involve them in lawsuits.   I could give an example but  
we all know hundreds of those situations from past RAIN postings.
#3, Montana is a different world.  People out there are still  
unspoiled.  Their "word" still means something.  They have  
expectations of proper behavior which the ACLU has beat down in larger  
cities. Bozeman had no intentions of hurting anyone and they would not  
have. Internet stuff should be like FOIA. It should all be public  
because it always can be. There are simply no safeguards that work.
#4, We have been told time and again, everything on the Internet can  
be and will be looked at. You can bet if a city employee is discovered  
to be a pedophile  or a Nazi and is running a Facebook site with that  
information displayed, sooner or later the public will know it.  Then  
the town looks criminal because they did not take every opportunity to  
investigate a potential employee.  The rule is, if it is on the  
Internet, it is there forever and there is always a hacker who can  
find it and expose it.

My High School Class Reunion Committee developed a Facebook page.   
Everyone is told to go look. Anyone who can go look can then disclose  
that info to anyone they wish to.  But who cares.  It was meant to be  
public. Soon Facebooks will be declared a record, they are an  
autobiographical finger print, they are the DNA of the true soul and  
will be required to be saved as a record for 20 years.  Shoot, every  
other digital key stroke has been ruled that way.  Bozeman is ahead of  
their time.  Wait and see!


Hugh Smith


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