1. The use of Facebook in the hiring process
What you need to know and do
By Brandon Geschwentner & Bob Schneider

2. The Do's
●Facebook can be a great tool to find information about
any individual
●It can help you know a little more about the person you
are looking at hiring
●It can help you find new people that might be interested
in being hired
●Use someone that is not involved in the hiring process to
receive and filter out information that is part of a protected
class and only send out the information that can be
lawfully considered.
●Always get written permission from the individual to do a
background check.

3. The Don'ts
● It can give rise to the Fair Credit Reporting Act
● Do not do a check until you receive written
permission from the individual before doing
background checks.
● Although Facebook can be a great tool for
finding information on someone, it can also be a
invasion of privacy
● Do not look up information such as sex, race, or
religion.
● Do not make fake accounts acting as a friend of
the individual to gain access to their information.

4. FCRA Act)
(The Fair Credit Reporting
●Passed in the year 1970
●This act protects your rights to your personal information
and credit information.
●This helps prevent employers from accessing your
information without your permission
●Many amendments have been made to this act over the
years to make it work better.
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5. The Stored Communications Act
●This act protects ones privacy through wired
communications. In other words it protect any
information stored on the internet, even if it is on a
server of some kind.

6. Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
●This prevents someone from tricking you into giving up your
information through computer trickery.
●Some websites can trick you into giving up your login
information by simply making their website look exactly like
the website you usually use and when you log in, it has now
recorded your login information to gain access to your
personal information.