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Business Accessing Personal Info via an Employee...

  • 18-10-2012 12:00pm
    #1
    smallorfaraway
    Registered Users Posts: 59 ✭✭


    I have a fb friend (childhood pal) who works for an internet provider. until recently, I had been with this company, but the level of service was so bad, I had to change providers.
    A few months ago I had posted a fb status asking if anyone else's ******* internet was down. The next monday I had a call from one of their engineers saying they had heard that our internet was down. I was a bit taken aback and only realised after that the friend must have told them.
    Anyhow, I recently went on a mad rant about them. And within minutes they contacted me to say they received "notification" of it. Best of it is, my fb page is totally private, my statuses are "friends except restricted" and my restricted list is huge, and in that particular update I restricted it even more than usual, but specifically left that "friend" on it.
    Hmm, not impressed that a company is accessing my private fb page via an employee friend. Surely this can't be right. I have since blocked the friend, but am thinking this is really not on. I have a few photos of my kids on fb, viewable only to family and friends, of which this person was one.
    Is this a normal practice in businesses? Surely this is not legal?


Comments

  • #2
    Procrastastudy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,224 ✭✭✭Procrastastudy


    How do you know they weren't monitoring you via the data you send through the ISP?

    Joking aside - if you're in anyway worried about privacy close the fb account, and sue them to actually remove your data. Once it's p there almost anyone can get access to it regardless of any restrictions you try and place on it.


  • #3
    ResearchWill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,111 ✭✭✭ResearchWill


    But you allowed your friend to view the information, do its no longer private, your only issue is with your friend he allowed a third party to view a communication between you and him. If you want privacy don't post anything on Facebook.


  • #4
    smallorfaraway
    Registered Users Posts: 59 ✭✭smallorfaraway


    Thanks for the replies. :)


  • #5
    cgarvey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,886 ✭✭✭cgarvey


    Any chance that friend just tried to help by opening a ticket on your behalf? I.e. the friend just provided minimal details, and not the actual FB status, or access to the FB status (screenshot, etc.)? I.e. the ISP wasn't monitoring anything, and never had access to your FB status.


  • #6
    smallorfaraway
    Registered Users Posts: 59 ✭✭smallorfaraway


    cgarvey wrote: »
    Any chance that friend just tried to help by opening a ticket on your behalf? I.e. the friend just provided minimal details, and not the actual FB status, or access to the FB status (screenshot, etc.)? I.e. the ISP wasn't monitoring anything, and never had access to your FB status.

    Initially yes. The second time was a different situation.


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