Connecticut Senator Says Facebook Passwords Should Not Be Sought By Employers

[kraznyi_oktjabr]

Originally Posted by Schroeder

What is Facebook?

That thing where police puts your mug shots. Chief of Police's personal recognition manual on local crooks.

[Platapus]

There is talk (thankfully just talk at this point) that in the future, for security clearances, an applicant will have to disclose all online personas (just user names, not passwords).

Asking for passwords is completely unreasonable though.

[Penguin]

If I was an employer, I'd ask the same question.
If the candidate would comply with my wish, I'd tell him to get lost!

Would you really trust someone with your company secrets who is willing to give away his right of privacy in a job interview? If they tell anything even without financial compansation, only because of a prospect for a job, you could probably buy Coca Cola's recipe from them for a bubble gum.

[August]

Recently one of my former students posted this on his facebook wall:

"Sometimes I only reason I get up in the morning is to get stoned".

Now while I share the concerns of folks here about the constant erosion of privacy in modern society I can't really blame an employer for wanting to know these things.

[Stealhead]

Originally Posted by August

Recently one of my former students posted this on his facebook wall:

"Sometimes I only reason I get up in the morning is to get stoned".

Now while I share the concerns of folks here about the constant erosion of privacy in modern society I can't really blame an employer for wanting to know these things.

How does one know that he is being serious or is his joking around.

Maybe he is making a reference to the stresses of daily life in a joking manner and means get stoned by someone (a stoning,stones thrown at him figuratively speaking).

He would have to have some more obvious 4:20 and have a picture of him with a spliff or a bag of weed in his profile for me to verify that he is a pot head and there are plenty of
dummies doing that.

Besides why do they need to gain passwords most people use 12345 anyway.

[Takeda Shingen]

Originally Posted by Stealhead

Besides why do they need to gain passwords most people use 12345 anyway.

Crap. Time to change my forum password.

[TLAM Strike]

Originally Posted by Stealhead

Besides why do they need to gain passwords most people use 12345 anyway.

Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen

Crap. Time to change my forum password.

Tak are you really the president of Syria?

[August]

Originally Posted by Stealhead

He would have to have some more obvious 4:20 and have a picture of him with a spliff or a bag of weed in his profile for me to verify that he is a pot head and there are plenty of dummies doing that.

Well I think if you ever met this kid Stealhead it would be pretty obvious that he was being serious. I used to have to go wake him up after lunch each day because he'd be zonked out from partying all night. More than once the smell that rushes out when he opened the door brought me back to the 1970's!

Besides it's not so much the drug use, although that is unacceptable too it's the lack of discretion. The way an employer would see it is if he's stupid enough to post something like that online, open to all i might add - no friendship or password needed, then he's probably also stupid enough to say something like it in front of a customer.

These Communications industries send their employees into peoples homes, they work in hospitals and pharmacies and airports. Such talk, even if joking, could cause the company big headaches if the wrong person heard it. At very least it could mean lost accounts. Customers, especially commercial ones, have no problem dropping vendors because one of their employees said something stupid like that.

[Platapus]

We had a discussion about this at work. It is becoming more common for potential employers to "google" prospective employees. As social networks become more popular, how soon do you think it will take before NOT having an internet presence can count against you?

Just like today if you ran across someone who did not have a phone (cell or land line) you might be a bit surprised. Or how about E-mail? I know I am a bit surprised when I meet people who have no E-mail accounts.

How soon will it take before people will just assume that you are hiding something if you don't have an overt Internet social network presence?

Could this happen within say 10 years?

[Oberon]

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...rticle2374963/

[mookiemookie]

Now Facebook's weighing in on the issue, saying they may sue firms who request passwords:

http://arstechnica.com/business/news...-passwords.ars

Facebook's a scumbag company, but it's good to see them do something in their user's best interests for once.

[Pisces]

Can I have access to the company's financial system first to make sure my pay for next year is secured?

This is just absurd!

[Takeda Shingen]

Originally Posted by Pisces

Can I have access to the company's financial system first to make sure my pay for next year is secured?

I was thinking along those lines as well. If we want full, and I mean full disclosure, then let's have full disclosure.

[Ducimus]

Originally Posted by Buddahaid

That's the reason I eschew social media.

Ditto. I don't do facebook or anything like it.

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

And then the interviewer thinks "Antisocial? Something to hide? Not keeping up with modern times?" and they go with the guy willing to give up his password.

And my response would be, "No sir, I don't have a facebook account. I've worked in the internet security field for 13 years, and in my professional opinion, posting real world personal information about oneself on the internet, is not the wisest of choices one could make."

[Wolferz]

I have a FB account but scrubbed out any personal data.
My youngest brother posted all kinds of personal photos of me on his album and last I spoke with him, I asked him to remove them all.
SHTAKO! I better go check and see if he did.

. Instead of a picture of me on my homepage, there is an Imperial storm trooper using an ATM.

If a prospective employer would ask about it, my reply would be...
"All us clones look the same." Password? Go fish. It's against the FB TOS to give out that information and I refuse to expose myself to litigation. Unless of course you're going to promise me a job making what the CMFIC is making. I'll take that in writing please. Notarized.