Governments are allowing companies access to users facebook profiles of those who are applying for jobs at said companies. The HR departments use this information for personality profiling and then helping the decide weather or not to call you for an interview.
For the profiling they use your installed applications, groups you have joined, photos u have uploaded and even messages in your message box. Basically everything you do on facebook. Setting your profile to limited or private does not help and companies can access this information with a simple application form.
As for the full list of governments allowing businesses access to these profiles i am uncertain, i do however know that South Africa is one of them.
It has also happened that in America 2 people have been arrested, prosecuted and sentenced off information retrieved from facebook messaging, something you would consider a “private” conversation.
1 case was pre-meditated murder, a woman was telling a friend in a message in detail of how she had planned to kill her husband. He is now alive and happy, she is in jail serving life for attempted pre-mediated murder.
A second case was a young man bragging to his friend of how he molested a little girl, also in jail.
BE CAREFUL what you say on facebook, even better, don’t break the law.
