Facebook: Legal Action Against Employers Asking For Your Password 504
An anonymous reader writes "Facebook today weighed in on the issue of employers asking current and prospective employees for their Facebook passwords. The company noted that doing so undermines the privacy expectations and the security of both the user and the user's friends, as well as potentially exposes the employer to legal liability. The company is looking to draft new laws as well as take legal action against employers who do this."
A least one U.S. Senator agrees with them.
i would love to sue my boss for that (Score:5, Funny)
Facebook in a lather about users' privacy?! (Score:2, Funny)
Wait, what? Facebook interceding to protect the privacy of its users?
We're going to need to wear our long underwear to that flying pig cookout in Hell.
(sings). Take this job and Shove it (Score:5, Funny)
You can't have my password no more.....
Easy Screening (Score:5, Funny)
I'd just use this as a screening question for potential employees.
If you willingly give me your login credentials I should just assume you're a moron and not hire you.
Re:Ever actually happened? (Score:3, Funny)
I was told that reading the article was considered poor etiquette here.
Re:But now... (Score:4, Funny)
But then you're a anti-social and therefore likely to go on a shooting rampage.
Re:My answer is "I don't use facebook" (Score:5, Funny)
Whether or not I use facebook is no one's business. Not my family. Not my friends.
That's one quiet Facebook profile you've got there...
Re:But now... (Score:5, Funny)
Have you come across any employers who do like to be told to fuck off?
Yes, but I work in a specialized industry. If you'll excuse me, I have 13 more movies to finish by the end of the week.
Re:Sure, I'll give you that FB password... (Score:5, Funny)
I imagine your usage of that password will be just as ethical as theirs, too. So yeah, fair trade.
Oh, completely ethical! Trust me! I just want to validate you all are a company that I want to be part of. As part of that analysis, I'll be poking around your servers to ensure that you have the proper security, logging, and auditing set up correctly. And review your financial and accounting software. And I want to make sure that you're friends with the right sort of other companies, and that you're not posting any inappropriate or obscene files on your servers, of course. Don't want to join a company and later have it blow up in a security or financial scandal. I mean really, I can't afford to have my reputation tarnished by being associated with *that* kind of company, can I?
Re:But now... (Score:4, Funny)
Yeah just give them your /. password instead.
Re:But now... (Score:5, Funny)
But then you're a anti-social and therefore likely to go on a shooting rampage.
Damn, you've got my number. eerie.
Re:i would love to sue my boss for that (Score:5, Funny)
Your comment reminds me of when my company did layoffs: Employer: ... and an extra two weeks of severance if you agree not to sue us.
Employee: Wait... I can sue you?
That's when you say, "no, I won't sign that."
And see how much more they offer you. Sales 101, my man.
Pic of GOATSE (Score:3, Funny)
I would give such an employer a little surprise to make them think twice next time. :-)
Sure I will just have a fake facebook. Pick of me on my user icon just like my real one. Give them the password and as soon as they log in have a very large zoomed in pic of the bloody ass in GOATSE as my post.
With white text caption saying you violated my rights I figured I would violate yours. Enjoy your lunch hour ... come on guys. Be creative
Re:i would love to sue my boss for that (Score:5, Funny)
Re:No new law is needed (Score:5, Funny)
humor aside, i got the first post and was so excited I had to type something beside first post quickly, so this came out....... I don't really want to sue my boss......
Translation: My boss reads slashdot and I hope he is not familiar with the concept of Freudian Slip. :-)
Re:Ever actually happened? (Score:4, Funny)
Wait, Facebook is demanding their applicants give up their Facebook passwords? Fucking bastards!
Re:How about this? (Score:5, Funny)
Why do you need to tell them you don't know it "honestly"? You could save yourself the script, and just lie.
Are you worried they are going to torture it out of you, and you genuinely need not to know it?
Re:i would love to sue my boss for that (Score:5, Funny)
Employer: ... and an extra two weeks of severance if you agree not to sue us.
Employee: Wait... I can sue you?
This should be your sig line.