The real problem is "people behaving badly..."

Heather Bussing talks about Recruiting Law - Discrimination and Social Networking over on RBC. It's a fascinating read!

Lately my email has been full of ads for seminars about social networking sites and worries about discrimination and privacy issues. The concern is that employers somehow may be liable for using social networking sites as a recruiting tool.

It's mostly hogwash. Lawyers are highly trained in paranoia—you get that way after a few years of dealing only with the situations that go sideways and upside down. So every year some very smart lawyers decide that the latest technology will create new and unseen liability and that everyone should get their knickers in a bunch worrying about being sued for millions dollars.
More here.
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