Social Media checks by the Security watchdog (Capita)

ethan · 28 Feb 2020 at 18:04

Tombstone said:
So its a company effectively doing a social media search on someone? Is that not really any different to someone applying for a job and the boss at the company deciding to go and try and look them up on social media, or more commonly, looking at their linkedin profile or something? I mean I don't know much about the GDPR but if I was hiring someone, I'd probably go and look at their facebook page, I mean I wouldn't want to be hiring someone who has loads of pictures of themselves smoking weed or something on their facebook page, or making abusive posts or racial or homophobic posts on social media. Or can a boss not go and look at their social media presence or something under GDPR?

They can hide everything apart from their profile pic. The profile doesn't even have to carry their name or even be a photograph of them.

Deleted member 77746 · 28 Feb 2020 at 18:27

ethan said:
They can hide everything apart from their profile pic. The profile doesn't even have to carry their name or even be a photograph of them.

How would that work if they can't identify that person in question?

ethan · 28 Feb 2020 at 18:31

You can even limit past public posts by changing them to "friends only". Once you've selected that option you get a message telling you the target audience has changed.

ADT · 28 Feb 2020 at 18:33

Ah those muppets.
Had to go through them when I got my current job. I would have had a better experience dealing with chimps

ethan · 28 Feb 2020 at 18:35

mrbell1984 said:
How would that work if they can't identify that person in question?

If the encryption is as good as Facebook says it is, the only way for you to prove the account was yours would be give a prospective employer physical access. Thing is though there will be the communications or private data of other people you would be providing access to.

Nasher · 28 Feb 2020 at 18:35

They can only look at info you make public. So basically only works on careless idiots.

Any other way involves some form of hacking and I doubt facebook themselves are going to give them anything.

The whole thing is dumb. You could make a profile and just post stuff/buzzwords on it to influence any check in a positive way, using it against them. Which is what I would do.

ethan · 28 Feb 2020 at 18:36

ADT said:
Ah those muppets.
Had to go through them when I got my current job. I would have had a better experience dealing with chimps

They did an enhanced disclosure for me dated 2011 even though the request wasn't sent until 2017?

Tombstone · 28 Feb 2020 at 18:48

Im not even sure why I would bother to hide my facebook or social media stuff from a prospective employer anyway, I dont have anything even vaguely questionable on my facebook, dont much care who sees whats on it really. But then I am often told I'm too much of a nice guy lol

ethan · 28 Feb 2020 at 18:54

Tombstone said:
Im not even sure why I would bother to hide my facebook or social media stuff from a prospective employer anyway, I dont have anything even vaguely questionable on my facebook, dont much care who sees whats on it really. But then I am often told I'm too much of a nice guy lol

Strictly speaking it's not just your data when you're interacting with friends and family, plus there's the way it's going to be be used.

Malevolence · 28 Feb 2020 at 18:54

Tombstone said:
Im not even sure why I would bother to hide my facebook or social media stuff from a prospective employer anyway, I dont have anything even vaguely questionable on my facebook, dont much care who sees whats on it really. But then I am often told I'm too much of a nice guy lol

That maybe so, but if you like, or retweet, a comment by a friend or a family member that seems completely innocuous to you yet some mentally ill crystalline ice structure at work takes umbrage and gets insulted by it then it can be bye bye job.

Tombstone · 28 Feb 2020 at 18:56

ethan said:
Strictly speaking it's not just your data when you're interacting with friends and family.

Wouldnt that only show if it was public though? Them being able to see my facebook page wouldnt show them nonpublic items surely? Its not like they have my login for facebook

Tombstone · 28 Feb 2020 at 18:57

Malevolence said:
That maybe so, but if you like, or retweet, a comment by a friend or a family member that seems completely innocuous to you yet some mentally ill crystalline ice structure at work takes umbrage and gets insulted by it then it can be bye bye job.

Perhaps, but if that was the case nobody would ever use social media in case someone else looks them up on it. All just seems like tinfoil hat paranoia about what bigbrother is doing to me

Nasher · 28 Feb 2020 at 18:59

ethan said:
Strictly speaking it's not just your data when you're interacting with friends and family.

Capita is so sloppy they probably didn't even consider that.

They are the Mr. Bean of contractors and **** up everything they get. The reason the army is understaffed is due to Capita fails.

ethan · 28 Feb 2020 at 19:02

Tombstone said:
Wouldnt that only show if it was public though? Them being able to see my facebook page wouldnt show them nonpublic items surely? Its not like they have my login for facebook

If you give access they have access to your Newsfeed, Timeline, Photographs & Albums, Groups and conversations with friends and family. I'm assuming that is what the service is for. Whose going to pay Capita to look at your profile when it will take anybody 2 seconds to do it themselves? There has to be more to it than that.

StriderX · 28 Feb 2020 at 19:06

Tombstone said:
Perhaps, but if that was the case nobody would ever use social media in case someone else looks them up on it. All just seems like tinfoil hat paranoia about what bigbrother is doing to me

It shouldn't be being used, it's a disaster, social media is perhaps the worst invention since mustard gas.

Pawnless Endgame · 28 Feb 2020 at 19:06

Capita, the buggers that they are.

I was on DLA and they halved it when I moved over to PIP, even though I'm registered blind :rolleyes:

Their assessors get commission every time they reduce an award.

No date yet, but it is going to tribunal.

Tombstone · 28 Feb 2020 at 19:07

StriderX said:
It shouldn't be being used, it's a disaster, social media is perhaps the worst invention since mustard gas.

Now that I VERY much agree with

ethan · 28 Feb 2020 at 19:09

Pawnless Endgame said:
Capita, the buggers that they are.

I was on DLA and they halved it when I moved over to PIP, even though I'm registered blind Their assessors get commission every time they reduce an award.

No date yet, but it is going to tribunal.

I've heard it said they keep banging on about Facebook and Messenger every time they do an assessment.

Tombstone · 28 Feb 2020 at 19:09

ethan said:
If you give access they have access to your Newsfeed, Timeline, Photographs & Albums, Groups and conversations with friends and family. I'm assuming that is what the service is for. Whose going to pay Capita to look at your profile when it will take anybody 2 seconds to do it themselves? There has to be more to it than that.

Really? I didnt know that, I honestly thought that when you give a company or program access to your facebook it can only access posts and conversations etc which are marked as public in facebook, I thought that was the whole point of having the only me, friends only etc options in facebook. Interesting to know.

Seems to me then that the fault with that lies with Facebook for not having friends only, only me etc mean friends only, only me, rather than anyone else.

wedrum · 28 Feb 2020 at 19:10

Don't be a crank and post everything on social media.... simples...