"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: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.