Callum Borchers

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WSJ Tech News Briefing · What Is AI Telling Prospective Employers About You? · 17 Jul 2026 podcast

I think facial recognition is a big one to be aware of.

I talked to a company called Ferretly, which is a third-party business that other companies hire to do this digital background searching, and they warned that the AI facial recognition detection is getting pretty good.

An example was maybe you're one of the many people in recent years who has opened an OnlyFans account, let's say, and maybe you're careful about using a screen name and you keep any explicit photos and videos behind a paywall so they remain private.

But your profile photo could be public.

And if facial recognition can match that profile photo to another image on the internet, it's going to get flagged.

And oh, by the way, Ferret Li, for example, uses a 70% confidence threshold.

So they don't even have to be 100% sure that it's you.

At 70% confidence, they're at least going to tell your employer, hey, this is Bill.

Hey, this is Susie.

Or at least we 70% think it is.

We're not going to tell you what to do about that.

But you might want to ask the person, hey, what's the deal here?

Ideally, you'd have an opportunity to explain yourself.

I think sometimes, though, when you're applying for a job, you don't always know what's going on behind the scenes, right?

So, I mean, if you apply for a job and you end up not getting an offer, not getting the interview, you don't always know what happened, right?

So it could be because another candidate was more qualified than you.

In fact, that's probably the most likely reason.

But it also could be that one of these background searches turned up something that a business didn't like, and you might never know about it.

And just to give people a little bit of a sense of comfort, it's not that every, you know, sort of standard college party photo is going to be like disqualifying, right?

What happens sometimes, and what I'm told happens sometimes, is businesses will say, hey, look,

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