Last but not least: Facebook - Personal data for the personnel office
While a great deal is being done today to protect privacy, at the same time, people are becoming increasingly willing to share personal data on social networks like Facebook. The advertising industry, among others, as well as human resources departments and intelligence agencies, are showing interest in this content and data.
Recently, it's not just politicians who have been swept up by the Facebook wave, but also secret services. The contact network stores vast amounts of personal data. The same applies to the Google Internet portal, whose service also includes storage space for files, an agenda, an e-mail account and a personalized user profile. Analysis software can use this data to create very precise personality profiles, as the Swiss Federal Data Protection Commissioner Hanspeter Thür told the NZZ am Sonntag. According to Thür, data can also be accessed by Swiss authorities. Suspicion of a criminal offense is sufficient for such information to be released. HR managers also use such information to find out about applicants. Data protection experts estimate that up to two thirds of HR departments use the internet for additional research. And last but not least, government agencies are also interested in the almost unlimited rights to use, process and pass on content and data, as the NZZ am Sonntag continues.
But Facebook fever continues to spread. To date, a quarter of the 200 members of the National Council have already created their own profile on the portal, as Sonntag writes. And with no small response - Lukas Reimann (SVP) and Christian Levrat (SP) already have over 1000 profiles among their Facebook friends.
But Facebook fever continues to spread. To date, a quarter of the 200 members of the National Council have already created their own profile on the portal, as Sonntag writes. And with no small response - Lukas Reimann (SVP) and Christian Levrat (SP) already have over 1000 profiles among their Facebook friends.
