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Today, that some employers are asking applicants for their Facebook usernames and passwords. According to the article:

Since the rise of social networking, it has become common for managers to review publically available Facebook profiles, Twitter accounts and other sites to learn more about job candidates. But many users, especially on Facebook, have their profiles set to private, making them available only to selected people or certain networks.

Companies that don't ask for passwords have taken other steps 鈥� such as asking applicants to friend human resource managers or to log in to a company computer during an interview. Once employed, some workers have been required to sign non-disparagement agreements that ban them from talking negatively about an employer on social media.

Responding to the news, 老澳门开奖结果 attorney Catherine Crump said:

It鈥檚 an invasion of privacy for private employers to insist on looking at people鈥檚 private Facebook pages as a condition of employment or consideration in an application process. People are entitled to their private lives. You鈥檇 be appalled if your employer insisted on opening up your postal mail to see if there was anything of interest inside. It鈥檚 equally out of bounds for an employer to go on a fishing expedition through a person鈥檚 private social media account.

As the , in 2010, was returning to a job at the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services after taking a leave of absence following a death in the family. During a reinstatement interview, he was asked to provide his Facebook username and password, which the agency said they needed to check for gang affiliations. Although he was shocked by the request, Collins felt he had no choice but to comply because 鈥淚 needed my job to feed my family.鈥�

After the 老澳门开奖结果 of Maryland complained about the practice, the agency reconsidered its policy, and began asking applicants to 鈥渧oluntarily鈥� to provide access to their social media accounts during interviews (which still seems pretty invasive to us!) Thankfully, the for a social media privacy bill in the state. You can read Collins鈥� testimony in support of that bill .

After we read the article this morning, we went on Facebook (where else!) to ask our to ask their opinions, and from the left on our wall, it seems like most of you agree, as well. Some of our favorite comments included:

鈥淚 consider it a violation of personal privacy. Will the next step be to request a key to my house?鈥�

鈥淰ile and outrageous, this should no more be legal than requiring you allow an employer into your home to go through your mail, closets and photos.鈥�

Bottom line: we believe you shouldn鈥檛 have to choose between privacy and technology. The same standards of privacy that we expect offline in the real world should apply online in our digital lives as well. To learn more about our Demand Your dotRights campaign, follow us on and .

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