Also don't forget every potentially controversial photo I've posted. Yes, it caught the Louvre-statue-butt photo my husband posted on our instagram
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Just had a background check for an application. Very interesting! I got to see every social media post I've ever made that contains a potentially controversial word, *and also every social media post I've ever LIKED that contains a potentially controversial word.*
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To be clear, to anyone from my department seeing this, I am not applying for a new job; the application is not for a job.
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You got to see it? Or did you pay for one yourself?
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I got to see it
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Pretty cool employer.
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I think it might be a legal requirement at some level that you get to see your own background check
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Oh. Huh. Im sure i actually dont have much to worry about for now. I aint ever gonna be in any sort of position where im worth the cost of a background check. I can probably be as rape-happy as i want online. WHATCHA THINK OF ME NOW, POTENTIAL. FUTURE EMPLOYERS! NYUCK NYUCK NYUCK
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I’m unsure if I’d want to see something like that. It’s bad enough to know potential employers can. Any idea who decides which words are “potentially controversial”?
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none of the words were too surprising. I suppose it comes down to how carefully each case is judged as to whether it's actually controversial or not. But hey, we're all here being public, we know what goes with that.
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any tweet you ever liked? that's no normal background check, the API for that only goes back ~3200 tweets
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Now that you mention it, I checked again and the likes they included only go back as far as mid-2017. The tweets go back to the beginning though
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Examples of flagged words?
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nothing too surprising: fuck, sexist, slavery, rape, any sort of clearly political word you can imagine, and especially relevant in my case, gay.
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So nearly every tweet in the twittersphere..
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Do you know if they (leaving the "they" in question undefined if you like) had access to deleted posts and likes?
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I don't think so. It looks like they did some sort of public api search. Also the likes were described as "current likes" so I think if you unlike something they wouldn't get it
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Did you feel like the keywords and principle was relevant? I’m always curious about the gap between people who see those as bad on principle and the real case that seem to make more sense.
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Seems like the keywords were well chosen to pick up "controversy". Whether it's appropriate to try to look for that depends I think on context of what you're being checked for (eg if you're about to be someone's public face or something)
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For an application?
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