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CNET News: Is demanding an applicant's Facebook password illegal?

2012-03-26
inherently coercive there's nothing voluntary about an employer asking a job applicant for login credentials or passwords it is coercive and unnecessarily invasive unreasonably intrusive into personal privacy so there needs to be an effort to strengthen and clarify existing law but in the meantime the Department of Justice and the EEOC should be investigating these demands we're calling for immediate investigation by both federal agencies the EEOC and the coroner justice using existing law just think about this for a minute by granting a prospective employer access to your facebook password someone interviewing you could get access to information that's not otherwise public your religion whether you're married or pregnant how old you are all the kinds of things that are illegal to ask in an interview process so this goes above and beyond
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