Who says the right to privacy no longer matters?
According to the latest trends, too many Employers expect to be the Boss of your life.
Not only can they monitor and veto any sort of Birth Control you would may dare to get through your Health Insurance (if the GOP gets its way);
Not only can they do background checks, credit checks, and make you pee in a cup;
Now they routinely expect your "personal" life to be an "open book" ...
-- an Open Facebook ...
This personal prying as a condition of employment is such a problem, that some state legislators are standing up and saying Enough!
More States Try to Keep Facebook Passwords Away From Bosses
by Caleb Garling, wired.com -- April 12, 2012
The Maryland General Assembly passed a law on Tuesday to make it illegal for employers to ask employees for Facebook passwords, and now other states are considering similar legislation, including California, Michigan, Minnesota and Illinois.
In California, State Bill 1349 would prevent schools and employers from demanding access to social media accounts. The bill is backed by Sen. Leland Yee, a Democrat from San Francisco.
Lee says that trying to snoop through someone’s Facebook account is just plain wrong. “This is no different than an employer asking an employee for a date,” says Yee. “My general sense is that the business community is going to continually want personal information and we’ve got to be vigilant.”
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Sorry prospective employer, your "Friend Request" has NOT been accepted ...
you'll have to glean what you can from the public wall, and whatever other digital footprints your snoops can find.
Never mind the training, the college degrees, the years of experience, the various skill sets an applicant might bring to your enterprise
-- No, you got to rifle through our sock drawers, and "following groups" instead.
It really must be a buyer's market our there, when it comes to "distributing the wealth" to the "most productive" members of society.
And that's just how the 1 Percent Deciders like it.
They expect their employees to be an open book. You want a Job, don't you?