Job seekers getting asked for Facebook passwords

Software will find it for them, if not a Google search. lying in your interview would constitute a firing in their eyes, I would think.

I know TDK said change the name on your original FB account but if anyone referred to your name in their posts, or under pics,etc on Walls, that won't change. In short, I would clean up my account the best of my ability.

 

You know what to do, baby girl!

 

Everything has a disadvantage to it. It makes sense for them to be screened, there's not much you can do. I would recommend that before you apply to your job, do a lot of altering and tidying up of your Facebook so you could guarantee that you are employed with a company.

Being employed is of utmost importance.

 

If you have another account with your name that should take care of the problem. All you need for an fb account is a valid email address.

 

Guess I better start keeping my house immaculate at all times for those complete strangers who want to ask me for the keys to my front door as well then.

I mean, if having my privacy so violated in the form of someone logging into my account..not merely searching for me on the site itself is so acceptable, might as well be prepared for when they want to just enter my personal dwelling too.

It's bullshit. Ain't no makes sense in any of it.

 

Nah girl, I say set up barricades and booby-traps..make those fuckers work to get to your stuff! :smt109

 

Now that's what's up

 

Can I write virus code into my faux fb account too?

 

LOL, yeah do it!!

BTW, did you know thieves routinely scan the word 'VACATION" in FB's search engine to see who's on one so they can pay their homes a lil visit. This is why I loove my .357.

 

You know it.

 

http://mashable.com/2012/03/23/facebook-responds-employers-passwords/


Facebook Takes a Stand Against Employers Who Request Passwords
5 hours ago by Sarah Kessler
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Facebook will fight to stop employers from requesting access to their potential employees’ otherwise private accounts, the company’s chief privacy officer Erin Egan announced in a statement on Friday.

The announcement follows reports that potential employers have pushed for access to applicants accounts — either asking applicants for their usernames and passwords or asking them to log into their accounts during an interview. Meanwhile, some universities require their student athletes to friend a coach or compliance officer who can keep tabs on their Facebook accounts, even if those accounts are not public.

Sharing or soliciting a Facebook password is against the social network’s Statement of Rights and Responsibilities.

“This practice undermines the privacy expectations and the security of both the user and the user’s friends,” Egan wrote on the Facebook Privacy blog. “It also potentially exposes the employer who seeks this access to unanticipated legal liability.”

Among the risks to employers, Egan says, are that they will come across information such as age or sexual orientation that could open them up to claims of discrimination if the applicant doesn’t get the job. Employers may also become responsible for information they uncover while pursuing private profiles, such as that which suggests a crime.

Bradley Shear, a Washington D.C., lawyer, told MSNBC earlier this month that demands for access to private social media content are a violation of the First Amendment.

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“I can’t believe some people think it’s OK to do this,” he told the publication. “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?”

Facebook’s statement suggests that the network is willing to help draw it — even if that requires legal action.

“We’ll take action to protect the privacy and security of our users, whether by engaging policymakers or, where appropriate, by initiating legal action, including by shutting down applications that abuse their privileges.”

Image courtesy of iStockphoto, SchulteProductions

 

Good.

 

Excellent. I like Facebook more now than I've liked them in a LONG time. Now if only they will sue the people and companies who have engaged in this that would be super. Put those people back in their damn place.