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It seems to me that with these kinds of secret IDs floating around that the applications can harvest, all kinds of information can be gleaned and collated. When the Facebook, MySpace or any other social network membership is factored in, the name, address, email and more of the person is known and a dossier of that person can be created.
A stockbroker interest in certain companies can be tracked.
People's interest in porn can be tracked.
Coaches interest in certain players can be tracked.
.. and so on.
If I am a Personnel Director or a Manager in a company and I am about to make a big hire, and my company policy prevents me from officially checking on Facebook type things, I will hire a third party, a company that has given good results before and say to them "hey look at this guy or gal and tell me if there are problems and of course don't do anything illegal."
Holy cow, he looks at kiddie porn? Has great interest in reports of child abuse!
I think that would indicate a "no go" and rightly so, but it could be used for other stuff like:
How many times did my potential VP for Finance, with a stellar family and church life, go to 3 different online dating/mating/hookup sites?
He seems to have a big gambling presence and he is in my Finance Dept?
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