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Twitter Distributes E-Mail Addresses of Job Applicants

by Tim Stevens on February 18, 2009 at 10:05 AM

Twitter Distributes E-Mail Addresses of Job Applicants

With the economy in dire straits, it's a hard time to be looking for a job. Privacy concerns make it even worse. While job search sites make it much easier to find and apply for jobs, they can also be huge repositories of very personal information that you probably wouldn't want exposed to the public. Monster.com has repeatedly been a poster-child for what happens when job seeker data gets leaked, and now instant-update site Twitter is getting in on the action, yesterday exposing the identities of 186 rejected job applicants.

The company had recently opened up the position of Business Product Manager and, while the details of the job are no longer available on the company's site, plenty of people apparently thought they were qualified. At least 186 people were rejected, all of whom had their e-mail addresses exposed by Twitter HR manager Krissy Bush, who sent them all a rejection notice via the CC field -- which publicly lists all recipients. Surely, she meant to use the BCC field, which keeps the list of recipients secret. Granted, most people have had their e-mail addresses exposed numerous times by now, but, still, that's no excuse for this kind of treatment. No word from Twitter on what, if anything, the company will do to make amends with these candidates. Maybe offer them jobs in their security department? [From: Valleywag]

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