Comments on: Want a job? Hand over your Facebook password http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/2009/06/19/want-a-job-hand-over-your-facebook-password/ Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:16:01 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: TinyTim http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/2009/06/19/want-a-job-hand-over-your-facebook-password/#comment-24878 TinyTim Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:26:09 +0000 http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/?p=3578#comment-24878 I completely agree with this hiring entity's desire to troll the internet for people's information. Requiring passwords is only a next step to make it faster, any PI worth his/her salt doesn't really need your password. Only a fool posts personal information on the internet, no matter how 'private' some website tells you it is. As an IT professional I know only too well how secure your information really is (i.e. not at all), and therefore was never stupid enough to sign up for myspace or facebook or twitter. I can only hope more employers do this. I think of it as a new form of natural selection, let the morons who absorb themselves in face book pay the price for their public foolery. The rest of us can get the jobs. I completely agree with this hiring entity's desire to troll the internet for people's information. Requiring passwords is only a next step to make it faster, any PI worth his/her salt doesn't really need your password. Only a fool posts personal information on the internet, no matter how 'private' some website tells you it is. As an IT professional I know only too well how secure your information really is (i.e. not at all), and therefore was never stupid enough to sign up for myspace or facebook or twitter.

I can only hope more employers do this. I think of it as a new form of natural selection, let the morons who absorb themselves in face book pay the price for their public foolery. The rest of us can get the jobs.

]]> By: Von Mises http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/2009/06/19/want-a-job-hand-over-your-facebook-password/#comment-24874 Von Mises Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:02:38 +0000 http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/?p=3578#comment-24874 John Berlau would assert that peple with Myspace pages etc. are public figures and therefore everything is up for grabs. Just be careful of candidates and ideas he endorses. Also remember that he believes that DDT makes you live longer… John Berlau would assert that peple with Myspace pages etc. are public figures and therefore everything is up for grabs. Just be careful of candidates and ideas he endorses. Also remember that he believes that DDT makes you live longer…

]]> By: James Treehorn http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/2009/06/19/want-a-job-hand-over-your-facebook-password/#comment-24519 James Treehorn Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:38:03 +0000 http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/?p=3578#comment-24519 There isn't anything worth a darn in Bozeman, Montana than anyone could give two cents about. What possible risk can there be to a city of 38,000 people??? There were more people in my city block in New York than this podunk zero unimportant dump. Whoever came up with this idea - if the official is elected - should be voted out of office immediately. This is Orwellian nonsense! There isn't anything worth a darn in Bozeman, Montana than anyone could give two cents about. What possible risk can there be to a city of 38,000 people??? There were more people in my city block in New York than this podunk zero unimportant dump.

Whoever came up with this idea – if the official is elected – should be voted out of office immediately.

This is Orwellian nonsense!

]]> By: Stephen http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/2009/06/19/want-a-job-hand-over-your-facebook-password/#comment-24483 Stephen Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:20:57 +0000 http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/?p=3578#comment-24483 Wally, You are exceptionally mistaken. In a true free market society, yes, employers should be allowed to ask anything they want, pay anything they want, and hire and fire with zero barriers. However, we do not live in a true free market society. Laws have been enacted for minimum wages, job security, and rights to privacy because they achieve a "social" market pareto improvement. These laws protect your ability to respond to this article. You cannot honestly be this closeminded. Wally,

You are exceptionally mistaken. In a true free market society, yes, employers should be allowed to ask anything they want, pay anything they want, and hire and fire with zero barriers. However, we do not live in a true free market society. Laws have been enacted for minimum wages, job security, and rights to privacy because they achieve a "social" market pareto improvement. These laws protect your ability to respond to this article. You cannot honestly be this closeminded.

]]> By: Sam http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/2009/06/19/want-a-job-hand-over-your-facebook-password/#comment-24479 Sam Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:08:12 +0000 http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/?p=3578#comment-24479 This can only happen in Montana! This can only happen in Montana!

]]> By: Jerrod Neil http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/2009/06/19/want-a-job-hand-over-your-facebook-password/#comment-24471 Jerrod Neil Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:54:14 +0000 http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/?p=3578#comment-24471 That is the most stupidest thing I heard. You're employed for a specific amount of time (e.g. a 9 am to 5 pm job). Whatever you do on your own time is your own business. Before you know it. The next question on job applications will be what sexual position do you prefer? Nuts, I tell you, nuts. That is the most stupidest thing I heard. You're employed for a specific amount of time (e.g. a 9 am to 5 pm job). Whatever you do on your own time is your own business.

Before you know it. The next question on job applications will be what sexual position do you prefer?

Nuts, I tell you, nuts.

]]> By: James http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/2009/06/19/want-a-job-hand-over-your-facebook-password/#comment-24416 James Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:47:40 +0000 http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/?p=3578#comment-24416 Wally, Employers do not have the right to ask for "anything they wish". Many pieces of personal information (religion, race, sexual orientation, etc…) have nothing to do with the work place. These things also include who you chose to associate yourself with outside of work as long as that association has not led you afoul of the law. An employer does have the right to check your criminal record, credit report, driving record, military record, and past work record (references). Unless you are applying for a TS or above type of clearance for government work peoples social lives are irrelevant and would be protected in almost any court of law. You are in an extreme minority opinion group and that likely tells us quite a bit about you. Wally,

Employers do not have the right to ask for "anything they wish". Many pieces of personal information (religion, race, sexual orientation, etc…) have nothing to do with the work place. These things also include who you chose to associate yourself with outside of work as long as that association has not led you afoul of the law. An employer does have the right to check your criminal record, credit report, driving record, military record, and past work record (references). Unless you are applying for a TS or above type of clearance for government work peoples social lives are irrelevant and would be protected in almost any court of law.

You are in an extreme minority opinion group and that likely tells us quite a bit about you.

]]> By: Annie http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/2009/06/19/want-a-job-hand-over-your-facebook-password/#comment-24413 Annie Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:46:45 +0000 http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/?p=3578#comment-24413 (Agrees with Eric) I would have no problem and would even expect a prospective employer to Google my name just to see what came up. No one gets my passwords with the exception of the hackers out there willing to waste their time breaking into my goofy Facebook page. :-p (Agrees with Eric) I would have no problem and would even expect a prospective employer to Google my name just to see what came up. No one gets my passwords with the exception of the hackers out there willing to waste their time breaking into my goofy Facebook page. :-p

]]> By: Wil from Chicago http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/2009/06/19/want-a-job-hand-over-your-facebook-password/#comment-24403 Wil from Chicago Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:38:29 +0000 http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/?p=3578#comment-24403 They can look at your page, providing them a username and password is too far. Once they have been into the page, you are now stuck with whatever they post...I would not do this. They can look at your page, providing them a username and password is too far. Once they have been into the page, you are now stuck with whatever they post...I would not do this.

]]> By: tmike http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/2009/06/19/want-a-job-hand-over-your-facebook-password/#comment-24394 tmike Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:30:32 +0000 http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/?p=3578#comment-24394 >> absolutey disgusting. i swear if the four fathers could see us now. they would be ashamed where are liberties have gone. Clearly, it would be grammar and spelling that disturbed them first. >> absolutey disgusting. i swear if the four fathers could see us now. they would be ashamed where are liberties have gone.

Clearly, it would be grammar and spelling that disturbed them first.

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