Teacher's Aide Fired For Refusing To Hand Over Facebook Password 407
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from the keep-your-hands-off-my-friends-list dept.
from the keep-your-hands-off-my-friends-list dept.
An anonymous reader writes "You can add this one to the short but growing list of employers demanding access to Facebook accounts. After refusing to give her Facebook password to her supervisors, Kimberly Hester was fired by Lewis Cass Intermediate School District from her job as an aide to Frank Squires Elementary in Cassopolis, Michigan. She is now fighting a legal battle with the school district."
Re:Notify facebook and contact an attorney (Score:5, Funny)
This is not perfect, but one possibility might be to set up a dummy facebook account and give that to them, rather than your real one. However, it is clear, this should be illegal, people who run into this should contact a lawyer and file lawsuits, as well, Facebook has expressed interest in filing lawsuits against employers who do this, so, notify Facebook of this if an Employer, or anyone else, has requested your password.
Please use more commas in your next post.
Re:Don't use Facebook. (Score:4, Funny)
Without Facebook, I'd have to e-mail all my female friends indivisually and ASK them for photos of them making peace signs and duck faces.
Like it or not, FB is inarguably much more convenient for that sort of thing!
Re:The battle now begins. (Score:4, Funny)
Uncle Stalin gets it 11/10.
Re:The battle now begins. (Score:5, Funny)
So you wouldn't mind a teacher giving lessons in pickpocketing, extortion, inciting riot, fraud, etc.?
As long as the class was property labeled as "Political Science 101," I don't see the problem.