Bill would stop employers from asking for social media passwords

Then how are they supposed to stop hiring ILLEGALS???

Dumb LIBERALS!

It's not about illegals idiot! It's about privacy rights and nosy employers. There should be a federal law prohibiting employers from asking for passwords and access to personal social media accounts.

While it's understandable employers would want to know about the perverted freaks working for them and how their slanders, drug use, pride in attacking others and sexual perversions could adversely affect actual enterprise, the new technology does introduce some sticky privacy factors. However, it's troubling that lawmakers would be concerned about this marginal issue, when they've harmed the American public in so many other ways themselves.

If I post something to a page, which is only viewed by a limited number of people in a social circle, a prospective employer of someone in that in that circle whom I don't even know has no business forcing that person to let them see my stuff.

We should support this bill.

Sheik Yerbouti wrote:

It's not about illegals idiot! It's about privacy rights and nosy employers. There should be a federal law prohibiting employers from asking for passwords and access to personal social media accounts.

What makes you think you have privacy rights????

Free market, baby!

Makes sense wrote:

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BIG GOVERNMENT REGULATOR!

That is not regulation, it is an abuse of password protection, when an employer takes a password which they obtained through intimidation then uses it to go and access a computer somewhere on the internet they are committing computer trespass just like a hacker.

I also don't want them walking in my back door and snooping around because someone I know is looking for a job.

The gov is finally going to do something for the people.

This recent effort by the corporations is just the latest example of more corporate tyranny and fascism. .

Makes sense wrote:

Then how are they supposed to stop hiring ILLEGALS???
Dumb LIBERALS!

pastor Obama vs pass-word facebuck;) hope for bishop mit;-00

Syloc wrote:

The gov is finally going to do something for the people.

hey moe! U lost yo pass-word or obama pastor;-0000h, may bee bishop mitt ;-000

Makes sense wrote:

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What makes you think you have privacy rights????

That pesky document called the constitution and decades of supreme court decisions! Employers have no right to pry into anyone's personal life unless it affects their job performance. A nosy employer is an abusive employer! We are not slaves and employers are not buying us they are employing us!

PlacitasRoy wrote:

This recent effort by the corporations is just the latest example of more corporate tyranny and fascism..

Despite the little negative icons you got, Roy, you are absolutely correct. And it won't sink into the brains of some of the idiots until THEY are the ones being denied something.

An employer has NO business snooping into the life that you lead once you are off THEIR time. If someone drinks themselves under the table every weekend if should matter not to an employer as long as that employee makes it to work on Monday morning and satisfactorily does his or her job. If said employer wants to look up someone's public FB page, then that's easy enough to do; but to ask for a password to delve into private notes, photos and messages is out of line.

Employers should also not be allowed to check your credit history. That is between YOU and your creditors. They should have no business checking your medical history, but they are doing it through insurance companies.

One day Americans are going to wake up and realize WHO is taking away our rights. It's not the government, it's business and corporations that are trying to control every aspect of our lives.

Another brain dead republicunt.

Makes sense wrote:

Then how are they supposed to stop hiring ILLEGALS???
Dumb LIBERALS!

Robert wrote:

If I post something to a page, which is only viewed by a limited number of people in a social circle, a prospective employer of someone in that in that circle whom I don't even know has no business forcing that person to let them see my stuff.
We should support this bill.

Next, they will want to read your mail...then, put a camera in your bedroom.