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Re:The use of Europe’s “right to be forgotten” privacy law h... by jefftk on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @07:01AM (#21069509)
Where is "Hiring decisions can use only information that the applicant provided" the law? This seems very excessive. For example, if I used to work with you at a different company and know you're really good it's very strange that I wouldn't be allowed to consider that in hiring you.
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Re:The use of Europe’s “right to be forgotten” privacy law h... by distances on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @07:12AM (#21069574)
Finland. For the Finnish speakers among us, it's "Laki yksityisyyden suojasta työelämässä". [0]

Employers do ask opinions from employees within the company if they've worked together in the past. I'm not a lawyer so I'm not sure if that's grey area or not.

I don't find the law excessive, but I'm quite privacy oriented to start with.

[0] https://www.finlex.fi/fi/laki/ajantasa/2004/20040759

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Re:The use of Europe’s “right to be forgotten” privacy law h... by jefftk on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @10:06AM (#21070886)
Thanks! I don't read Finnish so I'm reading your link in translation, but I don't see where in the law it says employers can't use outside sources of information in evaluating potential candidates? Could you point me to that section?
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Re:The use of Europe’s “right to be forgotten” privacy law h... by distances on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @10:14AM (#21070959)
4§, two first sentences lay that out pretty clearly through Google Translate too.
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Re:The use of Europe’s “right to be forgotten” privacy law h... by jfk13 on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @07:10AM (#21069560)
Surely there at least needs to be some way to seek independent verification (or otherwise) of the information provided by the applicant. We can't be expected to make hiring decisions solely and entirely on people's self-provided information.
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Re:The use of Europe’s “right to be forgotten” privacy law h... by distances on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @07:16AM (#21069595)
You can ask for verifications of course. You can get copies of the degrees, access any GitHub account the applicant provides, call to former employers they provided as recommendations. If applicant refuses to do that, well, I suppose you can use that factoid in the hiring decision too.

Just ask for permission to google if it's crucial for the process.

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Re:The use of Europe’s “right to be forgotten” privacy law h... by DarkWiiPlayer on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @07:21AM (#21069630)
That seems to be quite the reasonable law then.
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