IL passes law to ban employers from asking for facebook login

[Bert Notorius]

Gov. Pat Quinn signed the law Wednesday

...those employers that are left in il.


CHICAGO -- Seeking to guard the privacy rights of the social networking generation, Illinois is making it illegal for employers to ask job applicants for passwords to their online profiles.

 

[run_silent]

I have mixed feeling about this. First I think it is a privacy issue but then you did post it for all the world to see.

 

[kbate]

I have mixed feeling about this. First I think it is a privacy issue but then you did post it for all the world to see.

Great, they can look and see what you posted for the world to see. They cannot ask for access to that which you kept private.

How can you be mixed about that?

 

[Bert Notorius]

technically, no. like my Dad told me, if you don't want someone to read it, don't write it down.

 

[Bert Notorius]

on the other hand, it's another slap in the face to il employers.

 

[run_silent]

Great, they can look and see what you posted for the world to see. They cannot ask for access to that which you kept private.

How can you be mixed about that?

I admit I don't know about how Facebook works. If there is a private section then I agree that potential employers should not have access to it.

 

[doctor_insanus]

It's none of the employers' goddamn business.

 

[Squibbs]

I admit I don't know about how Facebook works. If there is a private section then I agree that potential employers should not have access to it.

Would you give a potential employer your PW to lit to see all of your pms?

 

[Sean Renaud]

technically, no. like my Dad told me, if you don't want someone to read it, don't write it down.

Really? You're Dad told you that? I'm sorry you live in such a fucked up place, but since you've already been told that I assume you won't mind handing over your picture albums, year books and personal diary encase you hired?

on the other hand, it's another slap in the face to il employers.

One that they deserved. This should never have been acceptable to begin with.

 

[butters]

Gov. Pat Quinn signed the law Wednesday

...those employers that are left in il.


CHICAGO -- Seeking to guard the privacy rights of the social networking generation, Illinois is making it illegal for employers to ask job applicants for passwords to their online profiles.

anything not made private is viewable by anyone, but if they have your password, they have not only access to your private material but to also make changes if they so decide.

that cannot be right.

i think there's a half-way house here, where an employer can state they'll only take someone on whose profile is visible to all - then choices can be made by the facebookee as to whether they wish to be employed by such a company in the first place. for any company to demand your password sounds extremely suspect.

 

[run_silent]

Would you give a potential employer your PW to lit to see all of your pms?

Oh hell no. I wouldn't want them to see all my love letters to you. Nor would I want them to see your sexy replies.

 

[WeedSmoke420]

*clicks

 

[Squibbs]

*clicks

You need to load the gun before pointing it at your head.

 

[Bert Notorius]

in a good economy this wouldn't even be an issue.

 

[Liar]

I have mixed feeling about this. First I think it is a privacy issue but then you did post it for all the world to see.

Do you know how Facebook works?

I admit I don't know about how Facebook works.

Dammit, I HAVE to stop replying to posts before reading the rest of the thread.

 

[dolf]

why should my employer have the right to read the private message my best friend sends at three AM to tell me she just miscarried? or the message i send to my mother on the anniversary of her brother's death? or the names and dates of birth of all my family members?

it's not just my privacy they're invading.

my facebook is set to private because i only want my friends to see what i say ''publicly'' there. employers have no more right to view that than they do to plant cameras in my bedroom.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

How would an employer even know if you had an online social media account if you just said no, I don't have any?

 

[Liar]

my facebook is set to private because i only want my friends to see what i say ''publicly'' there. employers have no more right to view that than they do to plant cameras in my bedroom.

This for some reason reminds me of that dad who shot his daughter's laptop and made a 100% public Youtube video about it, because the kid had bitched about him to friends on her non public Facebook page.

 

[Liar]

How would an employer even know if you had an online social media account if you just said no, I don't have any?

As for Facebook, I believe some information is always public. Such as a name, some location info, and profile photo. So that people can find you and ask to join your private firend list.

So your employer can see that you in face have a Facebook account, just by looking. Unless you use a fake name there.

 

[Bidin~Time]

Do some employers really ask about social media accounts? I have never been asked this question; am I in the wrong field for such questions?

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

As for Facebook, I believe some information is always public. Such as a name, some location info, and profile photo. So that people can find you and ask to join your private firend list.

So your employer can see that you in face have a Facebook account, just by looking. Unless you use a fake name there.

huh. Human Resources is the new Schutzstaffel.

 

[Bert Notorius]

Do some employers really ask about social media accounts? I have never been asked this question; am I in the wrong field for such questions?

i'm sure you've heard of il? we're the state the puts our governors in prison.

 

[dolf]

This for some reason reminds me of that dad who shot his daughter's laptop and made a 100% public Youtube video about it, because the kid had bitched about him to friends on her non public Facebook page.

our kids are supposed to bitch about us.
if they weren't bitching it would mean we were doing it wrong.

 

[kbate]

i'm sure you've heard of il? we're the state the puts our governors in prison.

He will receive an eleventh hour pardon after the 2016 election from a grateful outgoing president.

 

[Bert Notorius]

He will receive an eleventh hour pardon after the 2016 election from a grateful outgoing president.

or a shiv in the shower depending on the value of what's hidden under rod's wavy hair.