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Facebook: Legal Action Against Employers Asking For Your Password
An anonymous reader writes "Facebook today weighed in on the issue of employers asking current and prospective employees for their Facebook passwords. The company noted that doing so undermines the privacy expectations and the security of both the user and the user's friends, as well as potentially exposes the employer to legal liability. The company is looking to draft new laws as well as take legal action against employers who do this."
A least one U.S. Senator agrees with them.
it would be fun. Help me facebook.
Wait, what? Facebook interceding to protect the privacy of its users?
We're going to need to wear our long underwear to that flying pig cookout in Hell.
You can't have my password no more.....
My AC stalker: " I personally agree with your posts most of the time, but that won't keep me from modding you troll"
I'd just use this as a screening question for potential employees.
If you willingly give me your login credentials I should just assume you're a moron and not hire you.
I was told that reading the article was considered poor etiquette here.
But then you're a anti-social and therefore likely to go on a shooting rampage.
upon the advice of my lawyer, i have no sig at this time
Whether or not I use facebook is no one's business. Not my family. Not my friends.
That's one quiet Facebook profile you've got there...
#DeleteChrome
Have you come across any employers who do like to be told to fuck off?
Yes, but I work in a specialized industry. If you'll excuse me, I have 13 more movies to finish by the end of the week.
I imagine your usage of that password will be just as ethical as theirs, too. So yeah, fair trade.
Oh, completely ethical! Trust me! I just want to validate you all are a company that I want to be part of. As part of that analysis, I'll be poking around your servers to ensure that you have the proper security, logging, and auditing set up correctly. And review your financial and accounting software. And I want to make sure that you're friends with the right sort of other companies, and that you're not posting any inappropriate or obscene files on your servers, of course. Don't want to join a company and later have it blow up in a security or financial scandal. I mean really, I can't afford to have my reputation tarnished by being associated with *that* kind of company, can I?
Yeah just give them your /. password instead.
But then you're a anti-social and therefore likely to go on a shooting rampage.
Damn, you've got my number. eerie.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
I would give such an employer a little surprise to make them think twice next time. :-)
Sure I will just have a fake facebook. Pick of me on my user icon just like my real one. Give them the password and as soon as they log in have a very large zoomed in pic of the bloody ass in GOATSE as my post.
With white text caption saying you violated my rights I figured I would violate yours. Enjoy your lunch hour ... come on guys. Be creative
http://saveie6.com/
humor aside, i got the first post and was so excited I had to type something beside first post quickly, so this came out....... I don't really want to sue my boss......
Translation: My boss reads slashdot and I hope he is not familiar with the concept of Freudian Slip. :-)
Wait, Facebook is demanding their applicants give up their Facebook passwords? Fucking bastards!
Ceci n'est pas un sig.
Why do you need to tell them you don't know it "honestly"? You could save yourself the script, and just lie.
Are you worried they are going to torture it out of you, and you genuinely need not to know it?