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Company wants full access to your social media accounts to spy for landlords, employers

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If a UK startup has its way, then you will hand over full access to your social media accounts – “including entire conversation threads and private messages” – so it can be scraped and analyzed to help potential landlords and employers decide if you are a risk worth taking.

Why in the world would you agree to such a thing? Score Assured co-founder Steve Thornhill told The Washington Post, “People will give up their privacy to get something they want.”

The company launched “Tenant Assured” so landlords can decide if you would be a good tenant. It uses an algorithm to “deep dive” into your social media accounts and give landlords “insights into five main personality traits: extraversion, neuroticism, openness, agreeableness and conscientiousness.”

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Webroot: ‘Disconnect’ Between Employers, Workers Over Mobile Security – MSPmentor

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Webroot: 'Disconnect' Between Employers, Workers Over Mobile Security
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Over 60 percent of employers indicated they wanted employee input on mobile device security policies, but over 60 percent said employee preference had little or no influence on their mobile security decisions. 46 percent of employees using personal …
New Webroot Report Reveals Disparities Between Corporate Mobile Security …PR Newswire UK (press release)
95 percent of employers are concerned about security risks from BYODBetaNews

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Google Is No. 1 on List Of Desired Employers (Joe Light/Wall Street Journal)

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Joe Light / Wall Street Journal:
Google Is No. 1 on List Of Desired Employers  —  One in four young professionals wants to work at Google Inc., according to a survey by Universum, a consulting firm that helps companies improve their attractiveness to prospective employees.  —  Nearly 25% of survey respondents picked Google …

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