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Facebook warns employers not to demand passwords
Boston.com ^
| March 23, 2012
| AP
Posted on 03/23/2012 10:22:24 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA
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To: GOPsterinMA
I have not followed this story closely.
Has any news source actually named and verified specific companies that demanded passwords?
This sounds bogus to me.
But I am glad to read the facts if they are available.
To: GOPsterinMA
I have a facebook account that I would gladly show to anyone. It is clean and nothing offense is on it. It is a tribute to my World of Warcraft guild and presents my digital artwork. On the other hand if an employer demanded that I show it, I would tell them to bite me. There is no need for paranoia over this unless your facebook page is filled with vile lol.
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posted on
03/23/2012 10:54:07 AM PDT
by
lwoodham
(I am Andrew Breitbart. Don't doubt me on this.)
To: TSgt; Vendome
It must be cold and dark in that cave you live in...I don't have an account with any of those social sites, either, and my cave is toasty and well-lit. lol
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posted on
03/23/2012 10:54:44 AM PDT
by
Night Hides Not
(My dream ticket for 2012 is John Galt & Dagny Taggart!)
To: zeestephen
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posted on
03/23/2012 10:59:52 AM PDT
by
GOPsterinMA
(The Establishment is the establishment.)
To: carriage_hill; All
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posted on
03/23/2012 11:00:13 AM PDT
by
GOPsterinMA
(The Establishment is the establishment.)
To: lwoodham
“There is no need for paranoia over this unless your facebook page is filled with vile lol.”
True, but it presents a slippery slope of what type of information people think their entitled to. And that’s what needs to be stopped.
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posted on
03/23/2012 11:01:29 AM PDT
by
GOPsterinMA
(The Establishment is the establishment.)
To: GOPsterinMA
I said on that earlier post that any company that did this would eventually end up on the wrong end of a lawsuit. In the article it pointed out all the legal agreements, laws and contracts they were breaking. One extremely belligerent Freeper said employers could do whatever they wanted. Now it is clear they can't.
The HR departments of prospective employers assumed they could bully job applicants, and get away with it, because in a bad economy they have all the power. What they failed to take into account was that their actions were also crossing legal swords with another big company. Facebook has some good lawyers, and even they don't compare to one of the lawsuit for profit groups like ACLU.
Once this practice became public knowledge it was only a matter of time before the gang in HR learned which side of the power game they were actually on. The corporate office may throw a bottom level employee to the dogs rather than take on HR. But they will throw HR to the wolves rather than face problems from Legal.
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posted on
03/23/2012 11:02:07 AM PDT
by
GonzoGOP
(There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
To: Vendome
Obama’s Labor Dept. is gonna make any employers who did this rue the day.
Unions have figured out that Facebook is a dandy way to organize behind the boss’ back. And their friends in the Obama administration are not gonna let employers get in the way of that.
To: rarestia
Privacy is tantparamount to me.Regards,
To: GOPsterinMA
Right. Do a C:/ search for “cookies” and run Malwarebytes Free and see what garbage comes-up. I’ve cleaned/sanitized a lot of others’ machines from all that social network crap which is data-mining/spying/transmitting info, unbeknownst to them. I did warn them well in advance, but they didn’t listen. Remedial action is always more difficult once the machine is compromised, despite Norton/McAfee etc.
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posted on
03/23/2012 11:02:45 AM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
(I'll "vote for an orange juice can", over Barry 0bummer and another 4yrs of his Regime From Hell!)
To: Night Hides Not
“...my cave is toasty and well-lit.”
Mine is that, and s-a-f-e & s-e-c-u-r-e, too, NHN.
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posted on
03/23/2012 11:06:54 AM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
(I'll "vote for an orange juice can", over Barry 0bummer and another 4yrs of his Regime From Hell!)
To: GOPsterinMA
due to careful planning ... a prospective employer can’t find me or any of my family members on the Internet...
and I’ve been on the Internet since 1993.
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posted on
03/23/2012 11:07:05 AM PDT
by
xtinct
(The will of God will never take you where the Grace of God will not protect you..Be Strong Patriots!)
To: carriage_hill
“People have no idea of what theyre allowing to happen to themselves and their machines, as well as their/their families future, by using that social-crutch junk.”
That post is dripping with irony. Kinda like decrying the evils of alcohol while in a bar, then ordering another shot.
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posted on
03/23/2012 11:12:12 AM PDT
by
ctdonath2
($1 meals: http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com/)
To: GOPsterinMA
Why anyone feels the need to telegraph their lives across the internet for any and all to see is beyond this non-FB user.
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posted on
03/23/2012 11:18:44 AM PDT
by
bgill
To: alexander_busek
Ugh! Thank you, Alex. Just spent an hour in a job interview with a manager who butchered the language. Shame on me!
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posted on
03/23/2012 11:20:49 AM PDT
by
rarestia
(It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
To: ctdonath2
Good analogy, c. I don’t use either social networks or alcohol.
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posted on
03/23/2012 11:21:41 AM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
(I'll "vote for an orange juice can", over Barry 0bummer and another 4yrs of his Regime From Hell!)
To: GOPsterinMA
The weaker the economy, the more power the cronie capitalists have.
The door on the iron cage of modernity is closing fast.
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. Adam Smith.
It also can be applied when extracting more from employees than originally bargained for now that the economy is worse.
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posted on
03/23/2012 11:24:42 AM PDT
by
King Moonracer
(Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
To: xtinct
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posted on
03/23/2012 11:26:53 AM PDT
by
GOPsterinMA
(The Establishment is the establishment.)
To: bgill
It's gay if you ask me.
“I blew my nose, ewwww!”
“Hmmm...should have have 1 sugar or 2 in my coffee?”
WHO GIVES A SH*T?!?!?!
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posted on
03/23/2012 11:26:53 AM PDT
by
GOPsterinMA
(The Establishment is the establishment.)
To: carriage_hill
“I dont use social networks”
Uh...what do you think FR is?
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posted on
03/23/2012 11:27:53 AM PDT
by
ctdonath2
($1 meals: http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com/)
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