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Could employers begin asking for Facebook passwords on applications?

radcen

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They can ask for it, but I'm not giving it. My private life is mine, not the company's. Invading my online domain is tantamount to asking for a key to my home as far as I'm concerned.

Plus...I dare you to even FIND me on facebook.
 
They want to know that I lol'd a pic my daughter posted of my grandson?
 
Yeah, guess who isn't getting my password to anything? I don't care what they ask for. If they want control, they should petition Facebook so that they can register their company with facebook, and if people want to put that they work for that company, then the company would then have access to his/her facebook page.
 
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What's next?

Passwords to bank accounts?
 
I would put "No." in that field.
 
believe it or not its not needed on facebook for most people any way.
i was instructed by my operations manager to check to see if my applicants had any public accounts we could find like Facebook, Myspace,twitter, ect.. this was about 3 years ago and i actually found some pics on facebook of the guy that i was going to hire! the pics were of him at what appeared to be a party with people in the background smoking weed. now, he passed his drug screening but i could not hire the man unless i wanted to lie to my operations manager about not finding any thing, so needless to say he did not get the job!

this is happening a lot right now and people dont even know it. i dont see it to far fetched that if the want to check up on you b4 they hire that they would not start asking people for their pass code if they made their account friends only.
 
A couple of thoughts:

Since this application is for a job at a police department, could this question be a test? To find out how much of an idiot the applicant is?

The picture in the article indicates that the applicant made some sort of response. Do y'all think this person actually gave their username and password? I wonder if this applicant got the job.
 
Mycroft said:
A couple of thoughts:

Since this application is for a job at a police department, could this question be a test? To find out how much of an idiot the applicant is?

The picture in the article indicates that the applicant made some sort of response. Do y'all think this person actually gave their username and password? I wonder if this applicant got the job.
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I read that they prefer not-very-high IQ performances in police fields because those people follow orders better.

METRO NEWS BRIEFS: CONNECTICUT; Judge Rules That Police Can Bar High I.Q. Scores
A Federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by a man who was barred from the New London police force because he scored too high on an intelligence test.

In a ruling made public on Tuesday, Judge Peter C. Dorsey of the United States District Court in New Haven agreed that the plaintiff, Robert Jordan, was denied an opportunity to interview for a police job because of his high test scores. But he said that that did not mean Mr. Jordan was a victim of discrimination.

Judge Dorsey ruled that Mr. Jordan was not denied equal protection because the city of New London applied the same standard to everyone: anyone who scored too high was rejected.

Mr. Jordan, 48, who has a bachelor's degree in literature and is an officer with the State Department of Corrections, said he was considering an appeal. ''I was eliminated on the basis of my intellectual makeup,'' he said. ''It's the same as discrimination on the basis of gender or religion or race.''
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MrMindSpeaker said:
no way lol
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US cops: armed and dangerous? | Jennifer Abel | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
Court OKs Barring High IQs for Cops - ABC News
Jordan, a 49-year-old college graduate, took the exam in 1996 and scored 33 points, the equivalent of an IQ of 125. But New London police interviewed only candidates who scored 20 to 27, on the theory that those who scored too high could get bored with police work and leave soon after undergoing costly training.

The average score nationally for police officers is 21 to 22, the equivalent of an IQ of 104, or just a little above average.
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This makes me go :doh as well.
 
Mycroft said:
A couple of thoughts:

Since this application is for a job at a police department, could this question be a test? To find out how much of an idiot the applicant is?
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I was wondering when somebody would pick up on that. Though this wasn't the tangent I expected.


Mycroft said:
The picture in the article indicates that the applicant made some sort of response. Do y'all think this person actually gave their username and password? I wonder if this applicant got the job.
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I'm sure it's a stock photo, or specially set up for this story, and not the real application.
 
MrMindSpeaker said:
believe it or not its not needed on facebook for most people any way.
i was instructed by my operations manager to check to see if my applicants had any public accounts we could find like Facebook, Myspace,twitter, ect.. this was about 3 years ago and i actually found some pics on facebook of the guy that i was going to hire! the pics were of him at what appeared to be a party with people in the background smoking weed. now, he passed his drug screening but i could not hire the man unless i wanted to lie to my operations manager about not finding any thing, so needless to say he did not get the job!

this is happening a lot right now and people dont even know it. i dont see it to far fetched that if the want to check up on you b4 they hire that they would not start asking people for their pass code if they made their account friends only.
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Checking someones posted info is different than giving them your password
 
MrMindSpeaker said:
believe it or not its not needed on facebook for most people any way.
i was instructed by my operations manager to check to see if my applicants had any public accounts we could find like Facebook, Myspace,twitter, ect.. this was about 3 years ago and i actually found some pics on facebook of the guy that i was going to hire! the pics were of him at what appeared to be a party with people in the background smoking weed. now, he passed his drug screening but i could not hire the man unless i wanted to lie to my operations manager about not finding any thing, so needless to say he did not get the job!

this is happening a lot right now and people dont even know it. i dont see it to far fetched that if the want to check up on you b4 they hire that they would not start asking people for their pass code if they made their account friends only.
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Your signature would indicate that you are concerned with the preservation of liberty. You can not have liberty without being able to excercise your freedom and rights. its a fine line your walking friend.
 
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SgtRock said:
Your signature would indicate that you are concerned with the preservation of liberty. You can not have liberty without being able to excercise your freedom and rights. its a fine line your walking friend.
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and how so?

my boss the one who paid my salary required me to check public information and i refused to lie about it!
dont try to tell me about liberty my friend!
 
radcen said:
IIRC, this was an issue in Montana a few years ago and that city eventually backed off due to the outcry. So, my question is, is this an inevitability? Now that the seed has been planted, will we eventually be worn down?
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The day this starts happening is the day I leave facebook and all social media behind forever.
 
Honestly, I doubt this will fly.

Can you think of even one person you know who would fall for it? Okay, one reasonable person who would fall for it.
 
Simon W. Moon said:
Honestly, I doubt this will fly.

Can you think of even one person you know who would fall for it? Okay, one reasonable person who would fall for it.
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Plus there's always that off chance you didn't know the question was coming, and were forced to admit your password was "boobiesaresquishy".
 
This whole thing seems to be based on a single image with little or no first-hand information connected to it. A lot of the reports are just copy-and-pasted from each other. Nobody seems to have made any attempt to actually check the facts.

So, I'm a little cautious about assuming the image is legitimate. If it is, my first instinct would be that asking for the password was an error (we've all subconsciously typed something stupid and not noticed).

When something seems too stupid to be true, there is one obvious possibility too many people dismiss.
 
radcen said:
IIRC, this was an issue in Montana a few years ago and that city eventually backed off due to the outcry. So, my question is, is this an inevitability? Now that the seed has been planted, will we eventually be worn down?
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Unless you make a law that employers can't ask for **** like this then they will be able to do this. Because for every employee that says no there will be several others that say yes and because of those morons employers will be able to ask for anything they want from an applicant.
 
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