Employers and colleges asking for FB passwords during interviews

[Anonemous]

Get ready to make those dummy accounts!

http://redtape.msnbc.msn.com/_news/...colleges-demand-applicants-facebook-passwords

/or not have a FB account...

 

[Crono]

/or not have a FB account...

I'm in that camp.

 

[halik]

Ha I'd walk out of that interview. How about my email? Childhood pictures?

 

[SAWYER]

I do not have a fb account and never will, so whatever and is this even legal?

 

[rivan]

Hahahahaha.

No FB here.

 

[rivan]

I do not have a fb account and never will, so whatever and is this even legal?

Exactly what I'm wondering.

 

[Ns1]

Password is gofuckyourself

 

[FoBoT]

While submitting to a Facebook review is voluntary, virtually all applicants agree to it out of a desire to score well in the interview, according Maryland ACLU legislative director Melissa Coretz Goemann.

just say no. the people have to tell these idiots to piss off

All this scrutiny is too much for Bradley Shear, a Washington D.C.-lawyer who says both schools and employers are violating the First Amendment with demands for access to otherwise private social media content.
"I can't believe some people think it's OK to do this,” he said. “Maybe it's OK if you live in a totalitarian regime, but we still have a Constitution to protect us. It's not a far leap from reading people's Facebook posts to reading their email. ... As a society, where are we going to draw the line?"

 

[Printer Bandit]

 

[Anonemous]

Why not give them all your passwords including bank/cc/email etc?

 

[Atomic Playboy]

Any place that asks you to do that is clearly a place you should never work. What an insane invasion of privacy. I've never had a Facebook account, but even so, if I was asked that in an interview, I'd ask the interviewer to kindly kiss the fattest part of my ass. The nerve. You're trying to be my employer, not my owner.

 

[Saint Nick]

Hehe, I'd walk out if they ever asked that question.

 

[Miramonti]

You've either got to be insane to submit to this, or desperate.

Imo this preys on both.

 

[rcpratt]

I have nothing on my Facebook that I really wouldn't want my employer to know about, but I'd still tell them to fuck off if I was asked to do this in an interview. That's ridiculous.

 

[Matthiasa]

Even voluntarily logging on gives them their password.(No way they are not logging either the computer or network traffic.)
Which means a change before the interview, if one really wanted to get the position anyways.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

Get ready to make those dummy accounts!

http://redtape.msnbc.msn.com/_news/...colleges-demand-applicants-facebook-passwords

/or not have a FB account...

I'd say "Sure, as soon as all of you (to the interviewers) supply me with your passwords so I can see what kind of people I'm working with."

This is just ridiculous. I thought that a couple of years ago, somewhere (maybe in New Hampshire?) had a city that was requesting all password information for FB, email, etc on their applications and they got in big trouble for it.

 

[Phokus]

I don't know why the fuck colleges would be asking for that, but employers hold all the cards and they WILL tell you to bend over and you WILL do it because you need to put food on the table. Capitalism 101 folks. As long as jobs keep disappearing and the middle class keeps shrinking, be prepared to eat more shit.

 

[Deeko]

edit: nevermind, I skimmed the OP and thought this was another "OMG they want to be my Facebook friend" post.

 

[rcpratt]

Facebook has privacy controls. It takes about 30 seconds to set up a friend list with extremely limited access. Just create said list, add the employer to that list, they'll never know the difference. It doesn't inform the user of what they are being blocked from seeing - as far as they are concerned, that's your profile.

Problem solved, outrage unnecessary.

And for the record, of course its legal for them to ask, just like its legal for them to ask for references. Nothing is making you do it. Just like you cherry pick references you assume will be positive, you can set up your Facebook to block things they don't want you to see.

Yeah, you didn't read.

 

[FoBoT]

edit: nevermind, I skimmed the OP and thought this was another "OMG they want to be my Facebook friend" post.

the article does mention both cases, where they want members of athletic teams to add a coach as a FB friend as well as cases where they actually want to get onto your account, as you

 

[Deeko]

Yeah, you didn't read.

You're right, but luckily I edited my post before you posted this

 

[IndyColtsFan]

I don't know why the fuck colleges would be asking for that, but employers hold all the cards and they WILL tell you to bend over and you WILL do it because you need to put food on the table.

Certain kinds of questions are illegal for them to ask, and my guess is that these kinds of things will be ruled illegal as well.

 

[dainthomas]

Certain kinds of questions are illegal for them to ask, and my guess is that these kinds of things will be ruled illegal as well.

Exactly. It's illegal as far as I know to ask your age or whether you're pregnant or something like that.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Next they'd want my SWTOR login to craft themselves some purple force armor. I think not.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I would just tell them I don't know it, and store it in my password database at home.

Come to think of it, I would not even be lying if I said that. I really have no idea what my facebook password is. I have a pins file with all my passwords, and it's in there. If they wanted me to email it, I'd just email them the wrong one, and give them lot of hassle. "Oh I really don't know why it's not working, it works fine for me at home".

But it's getting pretty bad when employers are starting to ask for this stuff. Must be a US thing for companies/government to like invading people's privacy, as this stuff does not seem to happen here, at least not to this extent.