Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Your Facebook Password for a Job

How strongly do you want that job? Strongly enough to give up your privacy? Applying for a job at the city of Bozeman, Montana, requires you to give your passwords to your blogs, Facebook and other social networking accounts and email accounts to the potential employer.

Is this even legal? If so, I can imagine how in the future employers may attempt similar invasion of privacy in order to see if you are a "...a child molester or had some sort of information out there on the Internet that kind of showed those propensities..."

Read the article at Cnet News.

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