Monday's (October 9) Wall Street Journal article, Data Privacy Is Key Concern In Online Job Applications, by Perri Capell included one line I absolutely loved. Responding to the concerns that an increasing number of companies are asking prematurely for applicants' social security numbers the quote went something like- ?either leave the application blank or, if you must include it, make it up?.
Clearly the point was that companies have no business collecting SS#s on tens of thousands of individuals that are never going to have their backgrounds checked because they are obviously unqualified or out of the running long before a background check becomes relevant. Companies are just too lazy to wait and they collect the data upfront becasue they can. And, of course, no one who collects this data bothers to promise to purge it later?except, of course, the identity theft scammers masquerading as employers.
This is a formula for a time bomb that is bound to haunt someone out there.
Oh and congrats to, Mark Mehler, my business partner whose quote this was (and spoke his mind and not for the first time.) I knew there was some reason I like him.
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