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What do you all think about this? Should employers be able to do this and actually expect possible employees to hand over their passwords?
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/26/technology/senators-want-employers-facebook-password-requests-reviewed.html Senators Question Employer Requests for Facebook Passwords By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: March 25, 2012 Two Democratic senators are asking Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. to investigate whether employers asking for Facebook passwords during job interviews are violating federal law, their offices announced Sunday. Troubled by reports of the practice, Senators Charles E. Schumer of New York and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut said they were calling on the Justice Department and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to begin investigations. The senators are sending letters to the heads of the agencies. The Associated Press reported last week that some private and public agencies around the country were asking job seekers for their social media credentials. The practice has alarmed privacy advocates, but its legality remained murky. On Friday, Facebook warned employers not to ask job applicants for their passwords, presumably so they could view applicant profiles on the site. The company threatened legal action against applications that violated its longstanding policy against sharing passwords. A Facebook executive cautioned that if an employer discovered that a job applicant is a member of a protected group, the employer might be vulnerable to claims of discrimination if it did not hire that person. Personal information such as gender, race, religion and age are often displayed on a Facebook profile — all details that are protected by federal employment law. Not sharing passwords is a basic tenet of online conduct. Aside from the privacy concerns, Facebook considers the practice a security risk. “In an age where more and more of our personal information — and our private social interactions — are online, it is vital that all individuals be allowed to determine for themselves what personal information they want to make public and protect personal information from their would-be employers. This is especially important during the job-seeking process, when all the power is on one side of the fence,” Mr. Schumer said in a statement. Specifically, the senators want to know if the practice violates the Stored Communications Act or the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Those two acts, respectively, prohibit intentional access to electronic information without authorization and intentional access to a computer without authorization to obtain information. The senators also want to know whether two court cases relating to supervisors asking current employees for social media credentials could be applied to job applicants. The senators said they were writing a bill to fill in any gaps not covered by current laws. |
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If a prospective employer asked for your bank
account numbers, to check your balances, would you give them? Ridiculous. It seems more to me it is about the havers and the have not'ers. Those with jobs are free to discriminate and use whatever tools are at hand. Those without are at their mercy. |
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What do you all think about this? Should employers be able to do this and actually expect possible employees to hand over their passwords? http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/26/technology/senators-want-employers-facebook-password-requests-reviewed.html Senators Question Employer Requests for Facebook Passwords By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: March 25, 2012 Two Democratic senators are asking Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. to investigate whether employers asking for Facebook passwords during job interviews are violating federal law, their offices announced Sunday. Troubled by reports of the practice, Senators Charles E. Schumer of New York and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut said they were calling on the Justice Department and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to begin investigations. The senators are sending letters to the heads of the agencies. The Associated Press reported last week that some private and public agencies around the country were asking job seekers for their social media credentials. The practice has alarmed privacy advocates, but its legality remained murky. On Friday, Facebook warned employers not to ask job applicants for their passwords, presumably so they could view applicant profiles on the site. The company threatened legal action against applications that violated its longstanding policy against sharing passwords. A Facebook executive cautioned that if an employer discovered that a job applicant is a member of a protected group, the employer might be vulnerable to claims of discrimination if it did not hire that person. Personal information such as gender, race, religion and age are often displayed on a Facebook profile — all details that are protected by federal employment law. Not sharing passwords is a basic tenet of online conduct. Aside from the privacy concerns, Facebook considers the practice a security risk. “In an age where more and more of our personal information — and our private social interactions — are online, it is vital that all individuals be allowed to determine for themselves what personal information they want to make public and protect personal information from their would-be employers. This is especially important during the job-seeking process, when all the power is on one side of the fence,” Mr. Schumer said in a statement. Specifically, the senators want to know if the practice violates the Stored Communications Act or the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Those two acts, respectively, prohibit intentional access to electronic information without authorization and intentional access to a computer without authorization to obtain information. The senators also want to know whether two court cases relating to supervisors asking current employees for social media credentials could be applied to job applicants. The senators said they were writing a bill to fill in any gaps not covered by current laws. ![]() |
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Humm why would they need your password....
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What do you all think about this? Should employers be able to do this and actually expect possible employees to hand over their passwords? http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/26/technology/senators-want-employers-facebook-password-requests-reviewed.html Senators Question Employer Requests for Facebook Passwords By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: March 25, 2012 Two Democratic senators are asking Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. to investigate whether employers asking for Facebook passwords during job interviews are violating federal law, their offices announced Sunday. Troubled by reports of the practice, Senators Charles E. Schumer of New York and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut said they were calling on the Justice Department and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to begin investigations. The senators are sending letters to the heads of the agencies. The Associated Press reported last week that some private and public agencies around the country were asking job seekers for their social media credentials. The practice has alarmed privacy advocates, but its legality remained murky. On Friday, Facebook warned employers not to ask job applicants for their passwords, presumably so they could view applicant profiles on the site. The company threatened legal action against applications that violated its longstanding policy against sharing passwords. A Facebook executive cautioned that if an employer discovered that a job applicant is a member of a protected group, the employer might be vulnerable to claims of discrimination if it did not hire that person. Personal information such as gender, race, religion and age are often displayed on a Facebook profile — all details that are protected by federal employment law. Not sharing passwords is a basic tenet of online conduct. Aside from the privacy concerns, Facebook considers the practice a security risk. “In an age where more and more of our personal information — and our private social interactions — are online, it is vital that all individuals be allowed to determine for themselves what personal information they want to make public and protect personal information from their would-be employers. This is especially important during the job-seeking process, when all the power is on one side of the fence,” Mr. Schumer said in a statement. Specifically, the senators want to know if the practice violates the Stored Communications Act or the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Those two acts, respectively, prohibit intentional access to electronic information without authorization and intentional access to a computer without authorization to obtain information. The senators also want to know whether two court cases relating to supervisors asking current employees for social media credentials could be applied to job applicants. The senators said they were writing a bill to fill in any gaps not covered by current laws. and people wonder why us nuts rail on and on about why individual liberty and right to privacy is so important.. |
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and people wonder why us nuts rail on and on about why individual liberty and right to privacy is so important.. I can't imagine just handing over passwords just because they ask for them. |
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and people wonder why us nuts rail on and on about why individual liberty and right to privacy is so important.. I can't imagine just handing over passwords just because they ask for them. I would have to loose my job over that one heck most use the same password for more then just one site.... Might as well hand them your check book or credit cards...shshsh ![]() |
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and people wonder why us nuts rail on and on about why individual liberty and right to privacy is so important.. No doubt!
But if a potential employer asked for it, Id ask for the companies profile password, and when they said the company didn't have one id say, hey whadya know . . . neither do I. |
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If a prospective employer asked for your bank account numbers, to check your balances, would you give them? Ridiculous. It seems more to me it is about the havers and the have not'ers. Those with jobs are free to discriminate and use whatever tools are at hand. Those without are at their mercy. exactly, another way for employers to make a list of 'outsiders' |
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and people wonder why us nuts rail on and on about why individual liberty and right to privacy is so important.. No doubt!
But if a potential employer asked for it, Id ask for the companies profile password, and when they said the company didn't have one id say, hey whadya know . . . neither do I. ![]() ![]() now THATS funny ![]() |
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seems the NutBags have made it into Corporate Offices now!
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