Employers now demanding job applicants Facebook passwords

[BlinkingDuck]

@Leaper

Now I’m really thinking about the guy on Facebook who has my (very uncommon) name. On one hand, he’s listed as living nowhere near me, but OTOH…

OTOH, thank God I have an extremely common name

[Justin_Bailey]

@Fear_Itself

So the prospective employer can’t base a hiring decision on the applicant’s age, but they could ask to make a copy of the applicant’s driver’s license, ostensibly to confirm their identity, and gain their date of birth as collateral information?

Pretty much. Or in the case of hiring teenage workers, you can ask when they’re graduating and work out their age that way.

[Bricker]

@Fear_Itself

So the prospective employer can’t base a hiring decision on the applicant’s age, but they could ask to make a copy of the applicant’s driver’s license, ostensibly to confirm their identity, and gain their date of birth as collateral information?

Yes, I think so, although they would have to be open to other forms of ID as well.

[The_Tao_s_Revenge]

@Bricker

Um… after passing laws that allow such, of course?

Decent people tried to.

http://www.cbronline.com/news/republicans-turn-down-proposal-to-protect-jobseeker-facebook-passwords-290312

Republicans are against job seeker privacy.

[davidm]

@The_Tao_s_Revenge

Decent people tried to.

http://www.cbronline.com/news/republicans-turn-down-proposal-to-protect-jobseeker-facebook-passwords-290312

Republicans are against job seeker privacy.

Republicans seem to be against workers in general, or at least they seem to always favor employers over employees.