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Facebook Increasingly Becomes a Helpful Tool for Employers in Job Interviews
Privacy advocates say that, for now, it is legal for a prospective employer, during a job interview, to insist that you log into your Facebook page and then click through your “friends only” posts, photos and messages. The ACLU put a stop to companies demanding that applicants turn over their login and password credentials, but “shoulder surfing,” as it’s been dubbed, is legal for the time being. Aleecia M. McDonald, a privacy researcher and resident Fellow at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, says high unemployment makes it hard to stamp out this practice. “When you have a job market where there are more job seekers than hirers, you’re going to see things like demanding to see your Facebook wall because if you say no, someone else is waiting for that interview.” Paul Stephens, director of policy and advocacy at the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, doubts that opening up one’s Facebook page to a potential employer is ever voluntary.
Share Your Stickman Drawings - Draw a Stickman
Share this adventure with friends. You can even share your drawings! Send to: Customize the message that appears at the end of the adventure. Then share it with your friends! Line 1 Line 2 Play muliple levels and a much larger story in the new Draw a Stickman Epic App!
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Taxes That Surprisingly Most Americans Support
If ever there was a truism, it’s that everybody hates taxes—this week especially. Or do they? In at least a handful of situations, a surprisingly large portion of Americans favor introducing new taxes or jacking up the rates on existing ones. Here are five possible new taxes that, at least in theory, get plenty of support: Soda Tax Taxing sugary soft drinks has been proposed as a way to discourage people—kids especially—from drinking high-calorie beverages, which would hopefully lower obesity rates. Admittedly, in this instance—and many others, surely—California is not necessarily representative of the country as a whole. (MORE: Are High Gas Prices Boosting Online Shopping?) Online Sales TaxConsumers routinely avoid paying sales tax on items by purchasing them through online sellers such as Amazon and Overstock. One reason that only a small portion of consumers dutifully pay sales taxes for online purchases is that they don’t know they’re supposed to. (MORE: The Jobless Generation)
Super Rich Still Have Little To Fear From IRS
401K/Flickr In 2009, IRS commissioner Doug Shulman said in a speech that the IRS had formed a new group of auditors who were going to be directing their attention at a special group of taxpayers: the super rich. Dubbing them "global high wealth individuals," Shulman promised that his agency would be taking a hard look at people who had tens of millions of dollars worth of assets and income tied up in complicated financial dealings that often involved overseas banking and aggressive tax avoidance strategies. Two-and-a-half years later, though, the effort to target the super rich has proven underwhelming. As part of its global high wealth group effort, the IRS has also promised to focus more on "flow through" entities—the partnerships and S corporations that super rich people use to avoid paying taxes. The IRS hasn't come up totally empty handed by looking at the portfolios and tax returns of the super rich.
