Why you need this assessment:
Information collected about individual job applicants is considered personal information subject to privacy laws, regardless of whether the information is publicly available. You need to consider these privacy risks you face before using social media sites like Facebook to gather personal information about job applicants.
How this assessment helps you:
Completing the Privacy Risk Assessment below is a good way to ensure you do this systematically.
How to use this assessment:
Complete this Assessment before conducting social media searches to verify that the proposed search meets the criteria for “reasonable”.
Related reading: Using Facebook to screen applicants
Related reading: Model Notification