Job Applicants Asked for Facebook Passwords
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This is a pretty easy fix.
Set Facebook account to SUPER PRIVATE.
Create fake Facebook account.
Let your friends know what's going on. Friend them.
Give login info to company.
Never use again.
Or just say you don't have one after step one. They shouldn't be able to find your page unless you want them to.
I think I'd rather delete mine than hand it over. I hate using it these days anyway.
As for other social media networks, aside from Google+, it's all anonymous. So denial, denial, denial.
Set Facebook account to SUPER PRIVATE.
Create fake Facebook account.
Let your friends know what's going on. Friend them.
Give login info to company.
Never use again.
Or just say you don't have one after step one. They shouldn't be able to find your page unless you want them to.
I think I'd rather delete mine than hand it over. I hate using it these days anyway.
As for other social media networks, aside from Google+, it's all anonymous. So denial, denial, denial.
....Seriously? That's stupid.
I understand if the employer wants to look at the employee's profile (if they've made it public), but they want the password too?! Why? What LEGAL use would you have for that?
I understand if the employer wants to look at the employee's profile (if they've made it public), but they want the password too?! Why? What LEGAL use would you have for that?
I doubt it is illegal after all they are not forcing you to work there. If you want the job there I guess that is what you are going to do hopefully the recruiters realize that this is stopping the prospective employees looking into this job and it goes away organically as opposed to creating an brand new law.Matthew94 said:
Supreme Court. Roe v Wade. Decision based around our (well, women's) right to privacy.Kopikatsu said:
I shouldn't even respond since you said that garbage about dictators, but whatever. I'll feel better.
Good for you, but I'm pretty sure they'd have a hard time arguing illegality. This sort of thing has happened before and not held up to legal challenge.VanityGirl said:Illegal, immoral and I wouldn't do it.
Sorry.
May that man have his credit card data stolen continuously for the rest of his life. May he become so consistently associated with ID theft and fraud investigations that financial institutions turn away from any dealings with him merely upon hearing his name. May the IRS conduct monthly audits on him. May his prospective employers always know the things about him that make him a less desirable candidate. And should he wind up on the street, may the people he begs from understand that charity to him is a lost cause.Andy Chalk said:
I had thought, before reading that quote, that people understood that there are reasons to keep some information private other than just to conceal criminal activity. When your employers, email services, and banks tell you not to give your password out, it's not because they're encouraging you to be a criminal.
What the hell is wrong with that man? And what the hell is wrong with this police department?
Oh come on.
I gotta ask Paul McMullen: Are you telling me employers that ask for passwords aren't pedos?
I gotta ask Paul McMullen: Are you telling me employers that ask for passwords aren't pedos?
What I don't get about this is: What do the employer expect to find in your profile that they can't with out your password and log on?
Do they think I have messages about meth dealing and child porn on my Facebook? I mean... what the fuck are you hoping to find there?
If I ever run into this in the future, they will get a log on that looks like this:
Name: Go fuck
Password: Yourself
Do they think I have messages about meth dealing and child porn on my Facebook? I mean... what the fuck are you hoping to find there?
If I ever run into this in the future, they will get a log on that looks like this:
Name: Go fuck
Password: Yourself
What i want to know is what if you don't belong to any online social networks? Are they not even considered for the position?
If this becomes the norm then i'm screwed. I've never social networks and i'm not likely to start...unless you count the Escapist.
If this becomes the norm then i'm screwed. I've never social networks and i'm not likely to start...unless you count the Escapist.
Y'know, even if this weren't dubiously legal on the basis of asking Facebook clients to reveal information they're contractually obligated not to share, it's even more dubious in that it requires the applicant to provide information that employers aren't allowed to use in considering employment, such as sexual preference, religious beliefs, marital status, and whether the applicant has children. Possibly without even knowing they're revealing that information or being judged on it.
On that basis alone, they deserve to be reduced by lawyers to a smoking crater.
On that basis alone, they deserve to be reduced by lawyers to a smoking crater.
Yeah, I'd just make a new profile, one where I'm constantly being sent messages thanking me for running that marathon for charity, and thanking me for saving that drowning child from a river and donating a spare kidney for a terminal patient, and stopped an armed robbery at my previous employers single handed and unarmed.
Then I'd by all means hand it over.
Or, alternatively, I'd go apply to a company whose management layer is not entirely staffed by clueless yet malicious DICKS.
As for McCullen, the problem with his attitude about privacy, is that he's in a very special situation, he both knows that he's a ****, and doesn't care if everyone else knows. Most normal people, if they'd done even one of the terrible things he has, would try to hide it and feel bad about it, not gleefully revel in being so despicable, he's like some kind of movie villain.
At least some of the people caught in the Leveson enquiry have had the humanity to be shamed about the things they've done to keep a job.
He thinks because someone's had a child abducted and murdered, they're suddenly 'celebs' and deserve to have him in their garden rooting thru their bins in the hope of finding porn or drugs.
EDIT: also, privacy is important when you know you can't for a moment trust that anything reported in the tabloids will stick to the facts. Say for example, Justin Bieber's bin has a cold remedy packet in it, that's enough for the headline 'Bieber in teen drugs binge shame', then about 4 paragraphs down mention that it was entirely legal drugs. If you're not sure that's enough, just write that he's probably abusing them to get a 'legal high' and you've got another page of shite to print.
Not that I like him, but I'd defend Bieber over the UK tabloids any day.
Then I'd by all means hand it over.
Or, alternatively, I'd go apply to a company whose management layer is not entirely staffed by clueless yet malicious DICKS.
As for McCullen, the problem with his attitude about privacy, is that he's in a very special situation, he both knows that he's a ****, and doesn't care if everyone else knows. Most normal people, if they'd done even one of the terrible things he has, would try to hide it and feel bad about it, not gleefully revel in being so despicable, he's like some kind of movie villain.
At least some of the people caught in the Leveson enquiry have had the humanity to be shamed about the things they've done to keep a job.
He thinks because someone's had a child abducted and murdered, they're suddenly 'celebs' and deserve to have him in their garden rooting thru their bins in the hope of finding porn or drugs.
EDIT: also, privacy is important when you know you can't for a moment trust that anything reported in the tabloids will stick to the facts. Say for example, Justin Bieber's bin has a cold remedy packet in it, that's enough for the headline 'Bieber in teen drugs binge shame', then about 4 paragraphs down mention that it was entirely legal drugs. If you're not sure that's enough, just write that he's probably abusing them to get a 'legal high' and you've got another page of shite to print.
Not that I like him, but I'd defend Bieber over the UK tabloids any day.
I didn't know it was illegal to ask for information on a job offering. I thought if they didn't want to give up that information, they wouldn't get the job. Also, it takes all of 30 seconds to make a fake Facebook and friend a couple respectable people you don't know.