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Law Against a Meme ? Facebook Snooping Law in Congress
Posted by: cbelt3
Date: April 30, 2012 10:01AM
[thehill.com]

I find TWO levels of entertainment here.

Level 1- I don't believe ANYONE was actually asked for their Facebook password in the course of a job interview. This is not a 'trend', any more than trading Tide for drugs in a trend.

Level 2- This is the SAME Congress that just passed CISPA, which allows and encourages private companies to collect and trade personal data on ALL people and companies, REGARDLESS OF ANY OTHER LAW, under the name of 'cybersecurity'.

So the takeaway is that Congress will 'protect our privacy' after happily giving it completely away. Nice move, Congress.

Idiots.
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Re: Law Against a Meme ? Facebook Snooping Law in Congress
Posted by: Lemon Drop
Date: April 30, 2012 10:19AM
Asking for facebook user ID and pw has been very common among employers, especially government agencies.
One example of many:
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Re: Law Against a Meme ? Facebook Snooping Law in Congress
Posted by: Spock
Date: April 30, 2012 10:25AM
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cbelt3

Level 1- I don't believe ANYONE was actually asked for their Facebook password in the course of a job interview.

A little research with "the google" would seem to prove otherwise.

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You're welcome.





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Re: Law Against a Meme ? Facebook Snooping Law in Congress
Posted by: decay
Date: April 30, 2012 10:26AM
If I had worries about a job interview, I'd probably disable my account before the interview in case they asked.

Not that I have anything horrible on mine... but just out of principle.




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Re: Law Against a Meme ? Facebook Snooping Law in Congress
Posted by: lafinfil
Date: April 30, 2012 10:29AM
I do not have a FB account but if I did and was asked for such personal info in a job interview, I would respond by offering an instant and unsolicited urine sample into whatever cup happened to be sitting on their desk.


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Re: Law Against a Meme ? Facebook Snooping Law in Congress
Posted by: $tevie
Date: April 30, 2012 10:54AM
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Tuesday, February 22, 2011: Maryland's Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services has suspended a roughly year-old practice of asking prospective employees to voluntarily divulge their user names and passwords to social media Web sites such as Facebook to check for gang affiliations, the department said Tuesday.

The little-known practice gained notoriety on Feb. 14, when the American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland issued a press release and subsequent YouTube video detailing the story of a corrections officer who said he perceived that he had no choice but to turn over his passwords or risk failing recertification to work in the state's prison system.

[www.washingtonpost.com]

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Fri, Apr 20, 2012: Md. becomes first state to pass bill outlawing social media password requests by employers
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Re: Law Against a Meme ? Facebook Snooping Law in Congress
Posted by: freeradical
Date: April 30, 2012 11:11AM
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Re: Law Against a Meme ? Facebook Snooping Law in Congress
Posted by: $tevie
Date: April 30, 2012 11:14AM
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cbelt3
Level 2- This is the SAME Congress that just passed CISPA, which allows and encourages private companies to collect and trade personal data on ALL people and companies, REGARDLESS OF ANY OTHER LAW, under the name of 'cybersecurity'.

So the takeaway is that Congress will 'protect our privacy' after happily giving it completely away. Nice move, Congress.

You shouldn't have posted item one, because it ruined any consideration of item two, which is a good one.


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Re: Law Against a Meme ? Facebook Snooping Law in Congress
Posted by: Black
Date: April 30, 2012 12:37PM
What, you guys believe that stuff on the internet?


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Re: Law Against a Meme ? Facebook Snooping Law in Congress
Posted by: Dennis S
Date: April 30, 2012 02:39PM
Level 2 is valid because there are 2 different special interest groups paying off congress (or one is not paying off congress.)
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Re: Law Against a Meme ? Facebook Snooping Law in Congress
Posted by: mattkime
Date: April 30, 2012 09:33PM
WASSUP ZUCKERBURG MY @#$%&


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