Employers demanding Facebook passwords

dmcowen674 · **Joined:** Fri Jul 04, 2008 10:30 am **Posts:** 4932

Employers demanding Facebook passwords

Senators ask feds to probe requests for passwords

Senators want feds to look into employers asking for Facebook passwords during job interviews

3-25-2012

Senators ask feds to probe requests for passwords

Two U.S. senators are asking Attorney General Eric Holder 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, Democratic Sens. Chuck Schumer of New York and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut said they are calling on the Department of Justice and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to launch 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 are asking job seekers for their social media credentials. The practice has alarmed privacy advocates, but the legality of it remains murky.

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.

BoFox · Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2012 2:07 pm

Asking for passwords.. ugh, that's utterly ridiculously disgusting - those employers ought to be put in jail for 2 months just to get a taste of it.

apoppin · Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2012 1:34 pm

Here's an interesting example before arbitration
http://www.openforum.com/articles/would ... nf-SBdaily

Quote:

In April 2011 Kimberly Hester, a teacher's aide at Frank Squires Elementary in the village of Cassopolis, Michigan, posted to Facebook a photo of a co-worker's pants around her ankles and a pair of shoes. The caption: “Thinking of you." (See the photo here.)

“It was very mild, no pornography,” Hester told Michigan's WSBT TV station. She added: “It wasn't at work, it was off work time."

A parent at Lewis Cass Intermediate who was friends with Hester on the social network promptly alerted the school to the photo. (Hester's aide job was at the elementary school, but she technically was employed by Lewis-Cass Intermediate.)

Lewis Cass Intermediate superintendent Robert Colby called Hester into his office a few days later and, according to her, asked her three times for access to her Facebook page, which was private.

"I repeatedly said I was not OK with that,” Hester told WSBT.

Within days, Hester received a letter from the Lewis Cass ISD Special Education Director, which she provided the TV station. It read, in part: “…in the absence of you voluntarily granting Lewis Cass ISD administration access to you[r] Facebook page, we will assume the worst and act accordingly."

She was put on administrative leave and eventually suspended.

LifePincher · **Joined:** Wed Apr 22, 2009 9:54 pm **Posts:** 2159

This doesn't make sense. If ever it were mandatory, just say you're not on Facebook or whatever social sh!t network....... Then tell them to f**k off! :scratch:

BoFox · Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 11:39 am

Public Elementary schools being an easy target.. sue sue sue!!!

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