Give Me Your Password!!

[nissangirl74]

I don't know which is more unbelievable: potential employers asking for usernames and passwords to facebook, twitter, and e-mail accounts or that some people are actually handing them over.

Would you do it? There's no way in hell I would. My personal freedoms are worth a hell of a lot more to me than a paycheck or a scholarship.

In this article, http://finance.yahoo.com/news/job-seeke ... 51682.html ,

Robert Collins was returning to his job as a security guard at the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services after taking a leave following his mother's death. During a reinstatement interview, he was asked for his login and password, purportedly so the agency could check for any gang affiliations

[THawks]

While, I don't have much of anything on my facebook that could cause me to lose my job, I still will not/would not hand over my log in information. Invasion of Privacy (what little there is in the Facebook setting) Violation of the Fourth Amendment (Protection from unreasonable search and seizure) as well as possibly the Fifth Amendment (the self-incrimination portion, though if I remember correctly from junior high, that only applies to actual criminal cases) and all that other stuff everyone else will argue. I won't do it just out of basic premise that work is work, what I do ouside of work is not their business (as long as it doesn't involve trade secrets) This is along the lines of the numerous news articles out about students getting detentions or suspensions due to dissenting (and generally disrespectful) posts about teachers and administration members on facebook outside of school with the administration trolling the students accounts.

I did see an article on Time Online that Lawmaker's may be pressing forward to make this "shoulder surfing" against the law. I was unable to read the article though (and cannot provide a link to it) due to company web policy having the domain blocked...

[NolimitZ32]

Simple answer: Hellthefrakno!

[PEZi]

All of my s*** is public enough as is... if they couldn't tell who I was just by going to my page, they're idiots. No.

[TTkickedin]

Employer: "Ay. Gimme your password."

Me: "Deleted my facebook account. Soo 20 seconds ago."

[SBC 240Z]

^^^^^^^ HAHAHAHAHAH!

[themadscientist]

Sure, my user name is "gof*ck" and my pass word is "yourself."
The next call you get will be from my lawyer. I'm about to make your company famous.

[MinisterofDOOM]

Employer: "Ay. Gimme your password."

Me: "Deleted my facebook account. Soo 20 seconds ago."

Employer: Give me your Facebook password.

Me: Yeah I don't have one of those. Want my Quake Live password instead? Go frag some noobs.

[AppleBonker]

Anyone searching for a job should deactivate their facebook account. Then none of this would be an issue.

Go frag some noobs.

This made me lol. Hard.

[C-Kwik]

Can't be sure about this, but I suspect employers really need to consider the civil liability they expose themselves to here. If a person refuses to provide the info and subsequently do not get hired, I can't imagine there isn't the possibility of a lawsuit being filed for discrimination for not hiring someone on the basis that a person did not provide information that the company has no legal right to. If there are concerns about criminal activities, a drug test and background check should be reasonably sufficient.

[themadscientist]

As a selecting official I do do a quick google search on people. I remember one interview when an applicant said something about her interests and I said "I know." She got a really weird look on her face. Two clicks to her Facebook page. While I don't think 99% of employers have a legal reason to look at secure online content you would be surprised what people stick out on the net in the open that could bite them in the a**.

You want your boss seeing your bathroom cell phone pic of your tramp stamp? No? secure that s***, or here's a thought, wait for it, don't load embarrassing incriminating s*** on the internet!

[TTkickedin]

^ This is why I have my privacy set up pretty decent. Well, not that I have a tramp stamp, but I'd just rather keep most of my personal life private...I check my personal SEO weekly, and I don't add randoms off of facebook.

And watch out for posts you make to controversial topics online and posting your email to public forums/blogs. They put 2 and 2 together most of the time. That's one thing I messed up with.

Posting email to classifieds + phone number = them finding your Username on forums and all the NSFW thread you post to. LOL, believe me on this one.

This guy I know was looking over my resume and giving me a mock interview (for practice,) and he ended up searching me on google by my email/number and found a few posts I made here and on other public blogs where I put my .02 in, and said he wouldn't have hired me based off that alone. So now I'm going back to old threads here and deleting that info so they can't figure it out.

[hannibal]

Can't be sure about this, but I suspect employers really need to consider the civil liability they expose themselves to here. If a person refuses to provide the info and subsequently do not get hired, I can't imagine there isn't the possibility of a lawsuit being filed for discrimination for not hiring someone on the basis that a person did not provide information that the company has no legal right to. If there are concerns about criminal activities, a drug test and background check should be reasonably sufficient.

Right on. I imagine this ending up in court sooner rather than later...

[PapaSmurf2k3]

I take the approach of "take me as I am or not at all. If you don't like me doing what I do, then I don't want to be there anyway".
I generally consider an employer lucky to have me as an employee. Arrogant? Yeah, a little, but I am pretty good and have had my previous 2 or 3 employers throwing money at me to try to get me to stay.