During many of our class discussions we talk about employer’s using items that we post on facebook or other social media sites to fire their employee’s or using the internet to find out things about prospective employee’s.
What about saving the time of entering a person’s name into a google search or any website that compile personal information such as http://pipl.com/, imagine your prospective employer asking you for your password and login information. This may sound unfathomable to many of us but according to the two article’s below this is exactly what happened to Robert Collins an employee of the Maryland Division of Corrections.
Mr. Collins was asked to give his login information for his facebook account while going through a re-certification processes. He had to sit as the interviewer logged in and read posts made by Mr.Collins as well as people he was friends with.
The case has now been taken up by the ACLU which states that this is a breach of the Federal Stored Communications Act and Maryland State law.
http://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty/want-job-password-please
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/11/02/should-employers-be-allowed-to-ask-for-your-facebook-login/71480#disqus_thread
