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.

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So I've never had any social media account

[gelfling]

Not ever. Of any kind. And fully expect to never get or need one. It's possible that I'm wrong though and may eventually need to use one but I imagine I'd just use it a a portal to all the other non social media things I'd need to access. There's nothing I want to share with the world, no one I need to friend, I don't play console or computer games. 95% of my non work email is junk. I don't IM outside of work. I don't tweet. I've never had a blog. And where I've felt compelled to comment to some article or such online, those logins use aliases that in no way mimic my name or any personal information about me. I don't do online banking I don't pay bills online. I've never had a debit card or an ATM card.

So my point is, if I tell them all of this then what? They won't hire me BECAUSE I have NO privacy for them to invade?

What about people who don't have Facebook accounts

[Paracelcus]

I don't, and most of the people who I know don't.