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City requires Facebook passwords from job applicants

hypocritexposer

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City requires Facebook passwords from job applicants

published on Thursday, June 18, 2009 8:21 PM MDT

By AMANDA RICKER Chronicle Staff Writer

If you’re planning to apply for a job with the city of Bozeman, prepare to clean up your Facebook page.


As part of routine background checks, the city asks job applicants to provide their usernames and passwords for their social-networking sites. And it has been doing it for years, city officials said.

“Please list any and all, current personal or business Web sites, Web pages or memberships on any Internet-based chat rooms, social clubs or forums, to include, but not limited to: Facebook, Google, Yahoo, YouTube.com, MySpace, etc.,” states a city waiver form applicants are asked to sign. Three lines are provided for applicants to list log-in information for each site.

http://bozemandailychronicle.com/articles/2009/06/19/news/10socialnetworking.txt
 

jigs

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Big Brother is slowly creaping in and taking over...and Montana?? I thought it would be one of the last states to allow this crap.
 
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jigs said:
Big Brother is slowly creaping in and taking over...and Montana?? I thought it would be one of the last states to allow this crap.

Bozeman has turned into a major conglomeration of rightwingernut crazies and far leftist loons...

Interestingly its only been the left I've seen challenging it so far..

WTF, Bozeman?
by: Matt Singer
Thu Jun 18, 2009 at 10:37:23 AM MDT
I think Bozeman needs to seriously rethink their hiring practices to have more respect for privacy:
"Please list any and all, current personal or business websites, web pages or memberships on any Internet-based chat rooms, social clubs or forums, to include, but not limited to: Facebook, Google, Yahoo, YouTube.com, MySpace, etc.," the City form states.
Um, Google and Yahoo (and to a lesser extent Facebook and MySpace) means giving access to potentially years of personal email correspondence.
That's obviously the biggest red flag, but the idea that any employer -- public or private sector -- should be able to not just witness your personal online accounts (which include information like religion, sexual orientation, etc., that could trigger discrimination) but access them as a user -- completely messed up.

And I'm no lawyer, but this strikes me as violating the Montana Constitution's privacy protections big time.

In short: BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

http://www.leftinthewest.com/frontPage.do
 

hopalong

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Oldtimer said:
jigs said:
Big Brother is slowly creaping in and taking over...and Montana?? I thought it would be one of the last states to allow this crap.

Bozeman has turned into a major conglomeration of rightwingernut crazies and far leftist loons...

Interestingly its only been the left I've seen challenging it so far..

WTF, Bozeman?
by: Matt Singer
Thu Jun 18, 2009 at 10:37:23 AM MDT
I think Bozeman needs to seriously rethink their hiring practices to have more respect for privacy:
"Please list any and all, current personal or business websites, web pages or memberships on any Internet-based chat rooms, social clubs or forums, to include, but not limited to: Facebook, Google, Yahoo, YouTube.com, MySpace, etc.," the City form states.
Um, Google and Yahoo (and to a lesser extent Facebook and MySpace) means giving access to potentially years of personal email correspondence.
That's obviously the biggest red flag, but the idea that any employer -- public or private sector -- should be able to not just witness your personal online accounts (which include information like religion, sexual orientation, etc., that could trigger discrimination) but access them as a user -- completely messed up.

And I'm no lawyer, but this strikes me as violating the Montana Constitution's privacy protections big time.

In short: BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

http://www.leftinthewest.com/frontPage.do

It is evident even the LEFT can see where this is soooooo wrong!!!!
 
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