Report: Your Facebook life stays on file for 7 years
Don’t want your future employer to see that picture of you drunk and half-naked? Better not post it to Facebook.
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All Facebook reports:
“The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has given the thumbs up to Social Intelligence Corp, which keeps files of Facebook users’ posts as part of a background-checking service for screening job applicants. The FTC decided Social Intelligence complies with the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the same set of rules that keeps your bill-payment records on file with the consumer bureaus for seven years, according to Forbes.”
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