Yostivanich

As part of the draft of a law gov­ern­ing work­place pri­vacy, the Ger­man gov­ern­ment on Wednes­day pro­posed plac­ing restric­tions on employ­ers who want to use Face­book pro­files when recruiting.

The bill would allow man­agers to search for pub­licly acces­si­ble infor­ma­tion about prospec­tive employ­ees on the Web and to view their pages on job net­work­ing sites, like LinkedIn or Xing. But it would draw the line at purely social net­work­ing sites like Face­book, said Philipp Spauschus, a spokesman for the Inte­rior Min­is­ter, Thomas de Maizière.

via NYTimes.com – Ger­man Law Would Limit Facebook’s Use in Hir­ing. I have to admit to lik­ing this idea. It’s very rea­son­able, limit com­pa­nies from using sites that are designed to be part of a person’s life out­side of work. Although the larger ques­tion becomes what is a “purely social net­work­ing site”, does Twit­ter count, etc and who defines it. Over­all the bet­ter result is for peo­ple to be more intel­li­gent or more aware about what infor­ma­tion is public.