Delaware Liberal

Want This Job? Give Us Your Google and Facebook Passwords, Please

This is just plain crazy.  Make sure you go see the form — if you were applying for a job in Bozeman, MT, you’d also have to disclose and give them edit access to all of your online life.

Background checks are one thing (and an overused thing at that), but giving up your passwords to Facebook?  MySpace?  YouTube?  Whatever can this accomplish?  And this:

The local TV station picked up the story and, according to city attorney Greg Sullivan they don’t look at, “the things that the federal constitution lists as protected things,” and maintains that no one has removed their name from consideration because of the requirement.

This is BS. Of course they look. But whatever is the point?

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