“N/A” is the correct answer unless your account happens to be under your real name. “Fuck you, try and find it” is what you should be thinking.
They want to check you accounts, for reasons.
I have neither, what would I do?
Try a SQL injection attack
Try :() :;:
I recently attempted to apply for a job and they wanted a link to my LinkedIn page. Fair enough, but then they also had another spot for “Website” that was mandatory to fill in, and it would not allow me to continue with the application until I had a legit website in there, and it wouldn’t accept the same link as my LinkedIn page that I’d already used in the space above, so I just gave up. Fuckers.
Use https://example.com/ lol
But, yeah, it’s gotten ridiculous. No one wants to work, though…
Avoid use in operations.
Damn! I wanted to use it.
bit.ly that redirects to LinkedIn?
Put in a random github page and explain in the interview.
@not_applicable
put “logout” in these forms and watch them logout from their account
lmao this is genius
Looking forward to the day I’m unemployable for not having those accounts instead of just for being really easy to find out I’m a communist
I don’t even have a TikTok account, lol.
Then you are not qualified for this job
You shouldn’t have an Instagram account, either. Meta is more evil than Google.
A decade ago I would’ve agreed. Now I’m not too sure there’s enough difference to be significant.
I mean the second part of your comment. Obviously I agree with not having an IG lol
These are evil companies, but I am curious what metric you’re using to say one is worse than the other when their objectives and methods are similar.
Have one just in case
most of them are fake/ghost jobs…
I run into mandatory mobile phone number inputs in on-line forms from time to time. While I do have a cell phone now, I don’t use it a lot and don’t have the number memorized. If I enter my land line # or a fake #, they will still send texts to the number.
Some places are verifying the number is registered with a mobile provider too. I have a home VOIP line that accepts texts and I can send them too, and I use it when I don’t want to give out my cell #. Some sites won’t take it though, knowing it’s not a cell carrier. Some won’t take Google Voice numbers either.
This is some SCS bullshit if I’ve ever seen it. Boycott any business you see aski9ng for this, straight up.
N/A
N/A
Data harvesting disguised as a job application
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
I mean maybe if they have an investigation and they want to use that information as evidence sure that would be illegal to use but for background checks any of that information is fair game if they are able to get it. Like if your terms of service specifically say they wont give any information out for any reason, maybe you can sue them if you can prove they got the information with your name attached directly instead of it being sold after being anonymized in aggregate then another company/data broker aggregating other data on you to infer who’s data belongs to who with device footprints then selling that to the government as a service which i mean good luck. But most likely the terms you sign say they will hand over data for criminal investigations or matters of national security to government entities which they can state background checks for high level clearance positions is a matter of national security.
i mean as i said, the law says what exactly is done in such a high level clearance check, and it does not say that they check like private information on social media. So they cant legally optain this information like this, and because of the privacy laws, the social media platforms would not be allowed to hand that information out just because someone asks without any legal claim either
sure spy agencys might do different stuff, and there might be some other type of international data base they can look into for a background check
But normal goverment agencys cant just bypass the law (in my country), thats just a myth.
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.
If that illusion makes you feel safer, then I don’t care enough to argue with you about it.
feel free to provide any evidence to your claims
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
