Predictim babysitter app: Facebook and Twitter take action

guest · Nov 27, 2018

Predictim babysitter app: Facebook and Twitter take action
November 27, 2018
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-46354276

Predictim, based in California, offers a service that scours a prospective babysitter’s social media activity in order to provide a score out of five to suggest how safe they may or may not be.
It looks for posts about drugs, violence of other undesirable content. Critics say algorithms should not be trusted to give advice on someone’s employability.

“Scraping people's information on Facebook is against our terms of service,” a spokeswoman said.
[...] “We strictly prohibit the use of Twitter data and APIs for surveillance purposes, including performing background checks,” a spokeswoman said via email. "When we became aware of Predictim’s services, we conducted an investigation and revoked their access to Twitter's public APIs."

[...] gained considerable attention over the weekend thanks to a front-page story in the Washington Post.
The service charges $25 to run a scan of an applicant’s social media profiles [...] The firm insists it is not a tool designed to be used to make hiring decisions, and that the score is just a guide.
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