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Facebook password, please
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Big Brother Wants Your Facebook Password
If you want to become a state trooper in Virginia, you should probably delete any indelicate information you have on Facebook. During the job interview process, the Virginia State Police requires all applicants to sign into Facebook, Twitter, and any social-networking site to which they regularly post information in front of an administrator.
“You sign a waiver, then there’s a laptop and you go to these sites and your interviewer reviews your information,” says Corinne Geller, spokeswoman for the Virginia State Police. “It’s a virtual character check as much as the rest of the process is a physical background check.” Geller says the practice has been around for only three months and is just one of many ways the state makes sure its law enforcement officials are ethically sound. (Potential troopers also have to submit to a polygraph test).
Virginia is not the only state to do this; other police departments and government entities have similar policies. Until recently, the city of Bozeman, Mont., and the Maryland Division of Correction both asked job applicants to hand over their passwords. Each has discontinued the practice—in Maryland’s case it was after a prison security guard named Robert Collins contacted the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and complained. Now they go for the over-the-shoulder approach that Virginia favors. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has a unique method: It requires all student athletes to friend a designated coach or administrative official on Facebook so that he or she can monitor their pages.
According to the ACLU, the number of employers who request access to applicants’ Facebook profiles has risen over the past year. Accessing such private information puts employers in a legal gray area and may potentially open them up to both privacy and discrimination lawsuits.
“This practice is so new that until recently, many people weren’t even aware that this was happening,” says Catherine Crump, staff attorney with the ACLU. Crump says that—while the ACLU has noted Facebook screening in both private and public sector jobs—”when the government is the employer, people have the constitutional right not to be subjected to unreasonable searches.” In other words, if you’re applying for a government job and your potential employer asks you to give up your social-media passwords, they might be violating your Fourth Amendment rights. “People should be entitled to their private lives,” she says.
Facebook calls this profile-access practice “distressing” and has recently amended its Statement of Rights and Responsibility (the legal terms to which you agree every time you access the site) to make it against company policy to share or solicit your account password. “We don’t think employers should be asking prospective employees to provide their passwords because we don’t think it’s the right thing to do,” said Erin Egan, Facebook’s chief privacy officer, in a recent blog post. Egan was unavailable for an interview, but a company spokesperson says that when people apply to work at Facebook, the social-networking site doesn’t look at their private information during the hiring process. Facebook currently has no plans to take legal action against any companies that ask for passwords, but it looks forward to “engaging with policy makers” to protect against the practice in the future.
Having to share a Facebook password is understandably distressing for people seeking jobs, but Crump says it could harm employers, too. When companies scroll through Facebook profiles, they may happen upon information they don’t want to know. “In job interviews, there are certain questions that employers know not to ask,” she says, such as if a person has children. “You’re not allowed to discriminate based on familial status, “but once you start trolling through someone’s life on Facebook, you’re going to stumble on that information,” she says. If the company doesn’t hire that person, it may open itself up to allegations of discrimination.
Bill Peppler, managing partner of the national staffing and recruiting company Kavaliro, says people should assume that their potential employers will look at their Facebook and Twitter pages. Kavaliro works with a number of national and international corporations such as Con Edison (ED), Verizon, and Starwood (HOT); while the company doesn’t ask for applicants’ passwords, it reviews as much publicly available information as it can find on Facebook.
Peppler tells one story about a person who was rejected for a position because of compromising photos posted to Facebook. “We’re not talking about undergraduate spring-break photos that are 10 years old. We’re talking about copious amounts of alcohol, where in every single picture the person had a cocktail or beer in hand. The company saw that and said, ‘You know, we’re going to move on from this candidate.’”
Surprisingly, this person was not an inexperienced college student or recent grad. “The millennial generation is much more used to it, they can use privacy settings,” he says. Instead, it’s people in their mid-30s or who “have been working for three ............
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-03-27/big-brother-wants-your-facebook-password (http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-03-27/big-brother-wants-your-facebook-password)
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Oh fuck.
Does not really surprise me though.
When I was in highschool, a boy in my class was dating a rebellious girl in my class. He asked her to tone down everything she did, because he wanted to apply for a military higher education. And, according to him, all around him would be screened and taken into account in the assessment. Including the behaviour of his left wing, rebellious GF.
They did not last that long. :orly:
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Oh fuck.
Does not really surprise me though.
When I was in highschool, a boy in my class was dating a rebellious girl in my class. He asked her to tone down everything she did, because he wanted to apply for a military higher education. And, according to him, all around him would be screened and taken into account in the assessment. Including the behaviour of his left wing, rebellious GF.
They did not last that long. :orly:
Just as well they broke up, she would not have been happy under such scrutiny. :apondering:
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This facebook prying bs is getting enough bad press that it is likely going away. Whatever genius dreamed it up is a real asswipe. :thumbdn:
I am fortunate that my work situation means no more of that interview shit ever. When I was in college (circa 1986-87) I applied for a part time job at a furniture store. After I filled out the regular stuff there was one of those honesty tests with about 60 questions that got progressively more obnoxious. After the first 15 or so questions I just wrote "Fuck You" in response to all the remaining questions. I went into an office and was about 5 or 6 minutes into the interview when it appeared that the interviewer noticed all the Fuck Yous written on that prying bullshit test. I didn't change my expression or demeanor and he abruptly said something like "It looks like we won't be needing your services". I was still angry for a couple of days but later I had a good laugh.
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This facebook prying bs is getting enough bad press that it is likely going away. Whatever genius dreamed it up is a real asswipe. :thumbdn:
I am fortunate that my work situation means no more of that interview shit ever. When I was in college (circa 1986-87) I applied for a part time job at a furniture store. After I filled out the regular stuff there was one of those honesty tests with about 60 questions that got progressively more obnoxious. After the first 15 or so questions I just wrote "Fuck You" in response to all the remaining questions. I went into an office and was about 5 or 6 minutes into the interview when it appeared that the interviewer noticed all the Fuck Yous written on that prying bullshit test. I didn't change my expression or demeanor and he abruptly said something like "It looks like we won't be needing your services". I was still angry for a couple of days but later I had a good laugh.
:plus:
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That's obnoxious, but I know someone who got into trouble at work over something she posted on Facebook about someone she was dealing with at work, so I guess that the next step would be to not hire someone with something the employer doesn't like on their Facebook in the first place.
I wonder what they would do with someone like me who doesn't even have a Facebook account.
I don't know what the obnoxious questions were, but good for you, PPK.
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Shit, now you can't even make your life private online to keep internet spies away so they now ask for your password? What's next, asking for your user names and what forums you go to and your passwords for there too?
What if you don't have a Facebook account? You can mind as well not use your photos as your profile picture and just say it's not you don't have an account and anyone can have the same name as you and they wouldn't even know what location that person is at if they have it private.
I would rather mooch off the system if all jobs started doing this because serves them right for invasion of privacy. Why not start asking if they can install cameras in our home so they can see what we do at home when we are not at work? But I might lie about having a Facebook account instead and get rid of my profile picture and make it something else that isn't me or my family in there and they won't know it's me. They will think it's someone else because I am not the only person in the world with my name and I will make mu own husband remove his picture and put something else there and make everything private in there from the public and make him say he does not have a FB account either.
PPK, what were the questions they were asking?
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Solution: deactivate facebook page. Simple.
My lecturers hound my twitter and facebook from time to time, along with my classmates. This was clearly obvious when I got in major shit for calling a 4th year I disliked a "trogdolyte bint", had to be hauled into the office by the head of my course for an informal warning. I find it wrong personally, but their point of view is that this kind of stuff would get me sacked if I went out and got a job after graduating, along with breaking academic integrity. This does indeed happen, so I have to bite my lip not just for now, but in case I fuck up whatever work I get in future. :tard:
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:plus: for the Fuck you test and for the "trogdolyte bint" :2thumbsup:
They would think I was hiding something as the activity on my facebook is so low
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They'd just look at me and say "look another middle-age housewife playing facebook games" :yawn:.
Little do they know of my plan to take over the world. :mischief:
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How's that coming along, Your Majesty? lol
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Apparently, the director of CIA says that they're gonna spy on you through your dishwasher. :sleepy:
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/03/petraeus-tv-remote/ (http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/03/petraeus-tv-remote/)
:kapow: :tinfoil: :zombiefuck: :CanofWorms:
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They'd just look at me and say "look another middle-age housewife playing facebook games" :yawn:.
Little do they know of my plan to take over the world. :mischief:
They may use playing FB games against you.
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Apparently, the director of CIA says that they're gonna spy on you through your dishwasher. :sleepy:
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/03/petraeus-tv-remote/ (http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/03/petraeus-tv-remote/)
:kapow: :tinfoil: :zombiefuck: :CanofWorms:
I don't have one. :autism:
They'd just look at me and say "look another middle-age housewife playing facebook games" :yawn:.
Little do they know of my plan to take over the world. :mischief:
They may use playing FB games against you.
:zombiefuck:
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That's obnoxious, but I know someone who got into trouble at work over something she posted on Facebook about someone she was dealing with at work, so I guess that the next step would be to not hire someone with something the employer doesn't like on their Facebook in the first place.
I wonder what they would do with someone like me who doesn't even have a Facebook account.
I don't know what the obnoxious questions were, but good for you, PPK.
would probably think you were being untruthful about not having an account
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Its getting a little rediculous now for a person that wants a job. but here in california, i cant cash a check because the machine said, "no." so i have to go to a check cashing place. where they charge me like $22 fucking dollars!
I did call the company that owned all the cash registers and they said that somehow a flag got put on me? and basically i had to find a business that didnt use thier software on the cash registers. i had a behaviour that day
and the guy said he couldnt remove the flag, and couldnt tell me why it was there exept he said, "you live in a high crime area"
what a bunch of shit
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:plus: for the Fuck you test and for the "trogdolyte bint" :2thumbsup:
They would think I was hiding something as the activity on my facebook is so low
That's true, never trust the quiet ones! :tinfoil: