Originally Posted by
Bahamasflyer
That really comes close,.if not already crosses an invasion of privacy line.
If a recruiter asks, why not just hide/deactivate your FB page until you are hired and tell him/her you don't have one.
How will they know if it's hidden/deactivated?
Call the supreme court, complain that your constitutional right to privacy is being violated! I Got Rights!
Oh wait... that doesn't exist.
There are some statutory protections but (similar to the 1st. Amendment) those protect your from the government, not from potential employers.
The precedent is that employers can do all the research on you which they like (some state laws set limits on consideration of things like criminal records and bankruptcy). Looking at social media falls under that by default.
This is actually just another example of technology getting way far out ahead of of legal and cultural systems. You think that's bad, do know what Big Data knows (and shares) about you? And what they hope to do with that data? Siri will know what you want without you even asking...