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db90h:
http://digg.com/news/technology/senator_drafting_bill_to_prevent_potential_employers_from_requiring_facebook_logins?utm_campaign=Feed:+http://services.digg.com/2.0/story.getTopNews?type%3Drss&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=diggapi

Congress to save the day! ;) I wonder if they'll actually get this done ... We gotta give them credit when they do something useful, if they end up doing it.

jshare:
Thankfully this is against Facebook's TOS.

If it isn't illegal, it should be. And you should be able to take such an employer to court, just like you would if you felt you were being discriminated against during the job interviewing process.

goswell:
Say no on principle - that should go without saying.  But say no for a very practical reason too - if that's how an employer treats you as an applicant, how the hell do you imagine they'll treat you as an employee?  As several here have commented, it's those who give in who are the problem - if every applicant says no, then the employer must reconsider or do without employees.

That said, it's just one more example of discrimination of a kind still taken for granted a lot of the time.  I've been refused jobs in Scotland that simply weren't open to 'the b@st@rd English'.  Twice refused jobs with local education authorities because I'm an atheist.  And I've actually walked out on interviews when I was asked if my application was 'on the square'.   And even in work, I've had more than a few head to heads because I regarded my mobile phone number and email address ('purely for the record') as none of my employers' damn business.

I can remember one colleague who asked me what made me such a troublemaker. I answered that standing next to people like him did it every time.  When people stare at their feet and mumble excuses, the first guy to speak up (usually the same guy as last time) is a troublemaker.  But even more than the quietly acquiescent, I've never had time for the "I don't mind really" people - those who excuse the inexcusable rather than look in their bathroom mirrors each morning and ask themselves why they're so weak.

He who would exchange essential liberty for temporary safety.... etc etc.

Tinman57:
Its wrong, but it's also hard to stand up for these things when your livelihood is on the line.
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Bingo, I'm totally with you, and I feel very sorry for the poor saps that rolled over and gave it up.
BUT, call me a whatever you call those sorts of people, but a line MUST be drawn, or the tin-foil hat crowd is right, and this country is turning into a communist regime run by a trifecta of banks, big government, and multinational corporations and we are just little piggies that must be hiding something if we refuse to be probed.

Oh, wait...  :huh:

On second thought, screw those poor saps that caved, they deserve every bit of humiliation they're entitled to.
It's because of that attitude that our personal freedoms in this country and others are eroding faster than we can secure it.
Keep up the pretenses of a rotten economy, and people will be willing to part with every drop of integrity they once held so dear, in exchange for crumbs of safety and security.

At least, that's my opinion. :mad:
-Edvard (March 21, 2012, 03:10 PM)
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  Well, you save me a lot of typing because you said pretty much everything I was going to say, like you were in my mind.... Hmmmm...
  For those that "bend over" and conform, I say "You are all sheeple".  There is no way in hell I'd give my private info to anyone.  I'd starve and live on the streets before that happened...
  If nothing else I can add a quote that pretty much spells it out:
Benjamin Franklin said it best..."Those who give up their freedom in the name of security deserve neither freedom nor security."

Josh:
Employers asking job seekers for Facebook passwords

Maryland has just banned employers from asking for any social media password or account information

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