[muawiyah]

I see a problem here that can be readily resolved with a single lawsuit. What I write, or you write, or anyone writes is COPYRIGHTED. All you have to do is assert your right to put it in play legally.

So, this company is going to do a "collected works" of everything you wrote on the net and SELL THAT INFORMATION TO A PROSPECTIVE EMPLOYER.

Seems to me that's a commercial use of someone else's property (your words with copyrights), and you can't ordinarily do that without a release from the owner.

RightHaven is probably pretty hungry about now but this looks like low hanging fruit for that bunch of smarm merchants.

[Charlespg]

class action lawsuit ,conspiracy to violate freedom of speech ect

[BuckeyeTexan]

That’s a very good point of attack. I hope someone pursues it.

[BuckeyeTexan]

That’s a very good point of attack. I hope someone pursues it.

[Still Thinking]

So, this company is going to do a "collected works" of everything you wrote on the net and SELL THAT INFORMATION TO A PROSPECTIVE EMPLOYER. Seems to me that's a commercial use of someone else's property (your words with copyrights), and you can't ordinarily do that without a release from the owner.

But it could become universal that you are required to "voluntarily" sign such a release with your job application. They do that with other similar things, and get away with it because the courts would just say "Well, if you don't want to disclose it, don't sign, and get a job somewhere else." The courts don't specify where the "somewhere else" is.