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  • Background check company will store your social networking slipups for 7 years

    06/20/2011 7:05:29 PM PDT · by decimon · 17 replies
    Today In Tech ^ | June 20, 2011 | Mike Wehner
    In a world where potential employers will almost certainly toss your name into a search engine before considering you for a job, we should all be very careful about what we put online. However, sometimes we slip up, leaving a nasty smear on an otherwise pristine social networking persona. Now, thanks to a ruling by the FTC, background checking services can store those unfortunate moments for up to 7 years after you've deleted them from the web. A company called Social Intelligence — which provides background checks for companies during the hiring process — recently drew ire from would-be employees...