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Are social media account connected by email or only if employees connect them manually to other accounts? How do they know what you post?
They know by guessing. False positives happen all the fucking time.
It should be a law that all background check results are forwarded to the prospective hiree.
I know reddit sells api access. Lemmy I'd think would be safer. I'm more wondering if anyone has heard of it actually being used.
API access doesn't mean access to a user's email address, it just means a much easier way to get to the same content as everyone else.
I doubt that today Reddit sells that information. I'm sure they will one day.
API doesn't give you a user's email though and it would be a huge scandal if Reddit was sharing that info. They probably mean Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram. They might have facial recognition going on but it probably only applies to accounts with your name on it or linked to one that they know belongs to you (as in, if you put links to other platforms on your LinkedIn for example).
would it? I doubt it. people eat up everything.
I assume reddit is already sharing email info with "their 3rd party partners"
I'm just curious too. I don't know how it works
if your account is somehow referenced/connected the only way lemmy could be safer is that they dont have proper tools to automate looking for specifics.
But likely lemmy is unsafer because its an open standart and the frontends are more accessible than reddit