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Re:German Girl Turned Away at Border Due to Private Facebook... by marcosdumay on Tuesday June 11, 2013 @05:44PM (#5864921)
I use one of those tools at work. It's called Google :)
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Re:German Girl Turned Away at Border Due to Private Facebook... by smartician on Tuesday June 11, 2013 @05:46PM (#5864927)
Right... It's probably more sophisticated like that. Similar to what many HR departments use to screen future employees.
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Re:German Girl Turned Away at Border Due to Private Facebook... by rdouble on Tuesday June 11, 2013 @05:46PM (#5864931)
HR departments just use Google...
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Re:German Girl Turned Away at Border Due to Private Facebook... by smartician on Tuesday June 11, 2013 @07:34PM (#5865450)
There are subscription services that do all the dirty work for you. Like beenverified.com (However that explicitly "forbids" its users to use it for employment verification. Pinky promise!)
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Re:German Girl Turned Away at Border Due to Private Facebook... by eru on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @12:12AM (#5866501)
Why would they? That's incredibly risky from a legal point of view.
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Re:German Girl Turned Away at Border Due to Private Facebook... by fnordfnordfnord on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @10:14AM (#5868163)
So they like to say...
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