It’s anecdotal, but back when I was on Reddit, I saw someone say that a prospective employer actually required your full credentials so that they could check your private information as well.
i recently looked up the Security clearance law in my country, which has 3 levels.
And only in the highest level, for social media, all they do is look at your public profile
(if i did not misread it)
(They do stuff like asking people close to you questions tho)
That makes sense, because any government agencies that actually have a need for intimate knowledge of your social media footprint don’t actually need your password to harvest ALL the data that network has on you public and private.
I mean not really. In my country atleast, any goverment agency would require an order from an judge, which essential means that someone is part of active investigation/ suspect of a crime
spy agencys might have different capabilties, but practices like this would still be most likely illegal, without a cause
There’s no need to involve the courts when the social media networks are complicit. It’s not as if “how” they obtained the data will ever be tested in court, they only need the data for their own internal investigations. Courts and spy agencies don’t have anything to do with it.
that is just not true. Social media networks are also required by law to keep this data safe and not hand it out just because anyone asks. This is illegal and not how it works at all.
It’s anecdotal, but back when I was on Reddit, I saw someone say that a prospective employer actually required your full credentials so that they could check your private information as well.
i recently looked up the Security clearance law in my country, which has 3 levels.
And only in the highest level, for social media, all they do is look at your public profile (if i did not misread it) (They do stuff like asking people close to you questions tho)
That makes sense, because any government agencies that actually have a need for intimate knowledge of your social media footprint don’t actually need your password to harvest ALL the data that network has on you public and private.
I mean not really. In my country atleast, any goverment agency would require an order from an judge, which essential means that someone is part of active investigation/ suspect of a crime
spy agencys might have different capabilties, but practices like this would still be most likely illegal, without a cause
They just buy the data en masse from data brokers. All of the process is civil rights theater.
data brokers dont have private social media data like chats for example.
There’s no need to involve the courts when the social media networks are complicit. It’s not as if “how” they obtained the data will ever be tested in court, they only need the data for their own internal investigations. Courts and spy agencies don’t have anything to do with it.
that is just not true. Social media networks are also required by law to keep this data safe and not hand it out just because anyone asks. This is illegal and not how it works at all.
That not only sounds illegal and shady, it would be the dumbest thing you could do.
Now somebody else has your account, uploads some Epstein material for shits and giggles and you can go to jail
That is an immediate “Nope the fuck out of there, you do NOT want to work in het place”
Doesn’t sound illegal at all. Immoral sure. But there’s no way governments have created a law to make asking for social logins illegal
You slipped out a bit of Dutch at the end there.
Strongly agreed!
Probrally a scammer