"Pre-Crime" Comes To the HR Dept.

storagedude writes "Like something out of the Steven Spielberg movie Minority Report, a startup called Social Intelligence is mining social media to weed out job applicants based on their potential for violence, drug abuse or just plain bad judgment. The startup also combs sites like Facebook and Twitter to monitor current employees, presumably to monitor compliance with company social media policy, but as the criteria are company-defined, anything's possible. Just one more reason to watch what you post, folks."

Comments

Re:The new "rationality" test. I support this test

[pgmrdlm]

And you should be the first to be worried about companies checking online postings. You freely admitted to backing illegal activities. Hope you lose your job over your postings. Public postings are for anyone to read.

Re:Oh please

[pgmrdlm]

And I say you can use data mining Facebook as a way to weed out bigots. Just look at all the bigoted comments that are posted here. Those people should never be hired. You think they are any less vicious or disgusting on their FAceBook pages?