Automated Extraction and Reporting on Applicant Private Social Network Information

摘要

A system and computer implemented method, in the case of pre-employment screening and where other commercial goods and services require review of an individual (ie an Applicant), wherein a Reviewer uses an automated, efficient permission based system to identify and access private and semi-private information of an Applicant maintained in their social network accounts, with particular benefit where these have privacy settings. The system initiates a Reviewer request, automates the Applicant's identification of and approval to their social network and automates the retrieval of relevant information and reporting to the Reviewer. The process can be initiated by either the Reviewer or the Applicant. The system filters for potential legally discriminatory protected class information from the Reviewer residing in social network accounts and returns relevant information in an efficient, automated and permission based manner.