"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

[Surt]

At that point the only rational choice is to not participate online at all, or allow pictures to be taken, comments to be made, anything that relates to you. What a sad life that seems.

Yeah. It would be just like life before 1995.

He already said it was sad, no need to be redundant.

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

[elucido]

Maybe you shouldn't do any of those stupid things. You don't have to go to parties and act stupid and if you decide to go to parties and act stupid then you live with the consequences.

I think you're missing the point. Alot of things can be taken out of context or you could be discriminated against just for the way you live. I could be the most productive person in the world and also spend every night at a rave, why does it matter to my employer if im a lush outside of work if I do my work well?

This just highlights how corporations are moving in on areas they should have absolutely no say in. Between this and FICO scores determining who is hire-able, we're on the road to causing long term harm to people's livelihoods over a simple mistake, misunderstanding, or simply someone not liking you.

This trend scares me. Alot.

So stop living like a moron and you wont be discriminated against. Live your job.

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

[pgmrdlm]

Typical hypocrite slash doter. Run to bigoted comments when all else fails.

Do you type Niger and fagot as a AC because your a fucking coward to?

This I freely say and am more than willing for anyone to see, including where I work. The only good bigot is a dead one. I would pay to watch the people you seem to hate so much kill you in the most painful way.

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

[pgmrdlm]

Why? Because I don't hold your views? To bad coward.

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

[pgmrdlm]

You do realize coward that the parent is a primary example of why companies SHOULD be data mining FaceBook and other web sites about their employees. MaskedSlacker is a primary example of someone that should not be hired based on his online postings.

Postings such as that show the possibility of hostility to fellow workers or customers because of their sexual preferences. How many customers will be lost because of this hostility. Will MaskedSlacker attack someone they work with because he doesn't agree with their sexual preference.

But in typical slash dot mentality, nobody cares about that. But everyone here will be the first to complain when masked slacker or someone like them does cause law suits or harm to someone. The company should have recognized the behavior. The company should have never hired the person.

Your an idiot.

Re:Oh please

[pgmrdlm]

Its also a way to identify fucking bigots. Just watch the fucking bigoted comments that appear on this forum.

How many Niger comments do you see posted here. How many people are openly anti gay.Sorry, bull shit argument. To many posters here should never be hired because of their bigoted attitudes. And all you are doing is supporting them.

By stating that things they make public should not be public to the companies they work for. Double standard here?

Re:Oh please

[pgmrdlm]

Cretin? Your nothing but a hypocrite. Spouting off about bigots and then supporting them. Not to smart are you.

Re:And if the information is wrong or fake

[tehcyder]

I hope you're kidding. People like Maggie Thatcher are what got us into this mess.

The day she dies, there will be weeping across the nation. And they will be tears of joy, apart from the sort of quivering arseholes who sadly still run this country.

Re:Oh please

[pgmrdlm]

Love to see people supporting bigotry. Never was your reason was it for not wanting companies to do this. It was just a straw argument about bigotry and racism. In truth, when it's shown that this type of data mining can be used in stooping, you completely drop your argument.

Closet bigot are you?

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

[pgmrdlm]

Yea, I do believe that the death I described should be one of the official penalties for hate crimes. Allow the victims to return the hate that has been directed at them in as vicious of a manner as possible.

Coporal punishment for hate crimes. And yes, I would pay to see him die in the method I described.

Re:Look at it this way

[BitZtream]

I fail to see why its such a bad thing that you don't get hired by some jackass who doesn't like you.

I'm pretty sure you're retarded if you want to force your way into working somewhere you aren't wanted.