Employers ask job seekers for Facebook passwords
 

When Justin Bassett interviewed for a new job, he expected the usual questions about experience and references. So he was astonished when the interviewer asked for something else: his Facebook username and password.

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-...passwords.html

Good luck asking for my password, i'll tell them to shove it.

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That was in America - highly unlikely to happen here.

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I dont care what country its in the can sod off

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Either way, it's against Facebook's terms and conditions to share your password

https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms

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Thats a good post.

So if that ever happened here we could just shove these T&C in their face.

Sometimes its good to read T&C... ;)

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Or say I don't have Facebook.

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me too but they wont get my cableforum password username:(

Takes the biscuit would not bet it happening here we seem to be going all stars and stripes with the coalition.

I would not be shocked if by 2015 we completely engulfed american way.

Seriously whatever would they want it for anyway junk mailing friends and family.

Username possible to check on what he writes about them and his workplace then thats his rights nothig to do with them.

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Looks like someone else has read them too (or they're covert members of Cableforum, reading this thread ) :D
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/f...password/10768

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is it to monitor data been leaked about the company?

seems bizzare.

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Facebook doesn't like this: https://mashable.com/2012/03/23/face...ers-passwords/

Nor do some US politicians: https://mashable.com/2012/03/23/legi...dia-passwords/

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Glad we dont live in US crazy how they get paranoid. The only reason is to stop employers complaing about there working standards, practises, quality of products, fellow employers, bosses or revealing critical secrets.

Sadly big business ony need to say its for above purposes the courts will buy it. Its not for seeing latest secretary naked private photos :D

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I don't use Facebook. Or Twitter. Or any other social networking site. Reason? I have a life. I don't need them. If I want to talk to someone, I just go and talk to them, or at least phone, or at worst email them.


I saw a cartoon (Nemi) in the Metro that summed it up perfectly: there's this nerd sitting in a bar with a laptop and 400 Facebook friends, celebrating his birthday.

The punchline is that he's sitting there alone. 'Nuff said.

Actually, even if I did subscribe to them, and even if it weren't contrary to the T & Cs, there is no way in hell I would share such information with an employer - or anyone else. A password that is known by more than one person is no password at all. If I were asked such a question by an employer, I would terminate the interview then and there, no matter how good the job was. It's that old slippery slope; if they can ask that, then what else can they ask? Where will it end?

No. Citizens, it is time to take a stand on privacy, what's left of it.

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I'm impressed, you are so secret, you don't even share your username..Anonymous :D

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Ah but he is from Bolton, is 46, is not on Facebook and has a cat called tigger. Shouldn't be too hard to find. :D Unless he is using that as a cunning plan to deceive us. ;)

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I know what my reply would be, 7 letters 2 words ;)