for it. but consumer privacy advocates are warning about the down sides here. the fox business network gerri willis live in new york. what are the pros and cons here, gerri i m a bit confused. pros are obvious. get discounts for services and goods you might really want to buy. the downside is you have no control over this information. you don t know where it is going. and it s very private. be the results of your medical exams. your prescription history. some are even collecting if you have a dangerous hobby. that information could go to your insurer. could go to your employer, or what if you re unemployed, looking for a job, a potential employer. the impact for consumers are big, shep, recovering it on our show on fox news sister network fox business all this week. tomorrow we are going to be talking about your privacy on the cloud.
call me maybe. that is one way to try to get a job in this economy. clearly the private sector is not doing fine. [ laughter ] this is a graduate of elan university. and she is a very capable graduate. we are not judging her singing abilities. yes we are. going out there and appealing to employers. she has a degree in jirnl. minor in theater arts. so she is trying to distinguish herself. play that music again. we will let you decide. do it again. if i m a potential employer. first of all i like she put it all together. she produced it. she doesn t seem she seems self-deprecating and not ashamed to have the music dancing around. so maybe, all right. i give her that but the singing is. it s not bad. i m going to need more special effects depending on some wipes. star wipes? something like that. i appreciate the effort in this economy. you have got to do something. we have seen efforts similar to this. but i like the effort.
facebook, that is great to know. if i own a child care-related business and i m hiring someone around children, it is not unreasonable. now, there should be some protections, but it is not unreasonable for me to say who i am bringing around my children on a daily business. both you guys feel and i thought that somebody on the table would say it is not okay. i am not comfortable with it, because i thought it woib uld be an invasion of privacy. i m a political junkie, but you know that in here social media is not private. no matter the settings that you set up and no matter what you do, it is not private. except that it is. so stuff that is public, of course, your prospective employer can see, but stuff behind the password is private and you as an employer are saying give me access to something private. a potential employer, and you can is a say no. yes, that is right, you can say no. but saying no is in essence saying don t hire me. that is not necessarily true.
everything is public. shepard: you could go without the facebook, people did do it six years ago. guest: you have to think about way are writing, how you appear, how you are perceived and that is the key. kids, especially, have to think with perspective. shepard: if you are circumspect put no evidence of it on facebook. that s all i m saying. guest: amen. i agree. wisely. shepard: and new we bring you jonathan hunt, thank you, and thank you and thank you. one of the most wanted informant led authorities to arrest former comrades and he is very popular now. authorities say this man formed the elite hacking organization and according to court documents the group attacked visa, master card and government computer networks from tunisia to the
some colleges reportedly requiring at leasts to accept friend request from coaches but the practice is a clear violation of personal privacy. our prosecutor is here, and public relations expert. a potential employer, an organization which i am seeking a job tells know log on in front of them and see behind my privacy wall? time to walk out. guest: there has to be a dividing line, and one is, listen, if you want me to show you what i think you have a reasonable expectation of e-mails to be private, they are going beyond that saying that, and the first amendment is stepped down opposed to where it is balanced. i am going for job you want to find out things about me, do you think that facebook things are private in it is judgment call and a balancing act, but there has to be a long drab, and what you know is not private, and if