How do they expect anyone to agree to this? I’d love to here the outcome of the court case.

Netx your employer decieds how you should vote if you wana keep you job. Crasy!

It’s just another way of having your “Big Brother” allegedly “looking out for your best interests”.

I would have walked out, as well. It’s complete and total BS to have ANYONE (I don’t care WHO it is) asking for a password to anything. That’s why people HAVE passwords. I don’t care if Obama himself pulled me aside and said my Facebook is vital to National Security. I’d tell him to kiss my *beep*, too.

You wanna do a Google search? Knock yourself out. P*** test me? Fine. Arrest check? Go for it. Criminal background check? Have fun. But my time is MINE. Not YOURS. You want my passwords, I want a million bucks. Mick Jagger once said, “You can’t always get what you want”. I’d ask for his passwords to his bank accounts, along with his routing and account numbers and copies of his statements. Also, his wife’s measurements and some photos, too.

It seems that every year, this nation loses more and more privacy under the veil of being for the public good.

It started with several undertrained and overpaid wannabe “security” feeling my balls every time I want to fly somewhere, and now continues with this.

If the government has its way, all houses will be glass, and there will be no more privacy to invade, as you will be a walking reality show, with cameras everywhere broadcasting footage for all to see. No editing, just plenty of recording.

Don’t worry about being recorded, though. You’ll be much safer without such things as privacy. Remember, if you have privacy, then the terrorists win.

Absolutely ridiculous. Private info is just that private. If they want to do public searches go for it, but to ask for the password, no way.

I would turn the table on them. I would say you give me all of your employees’ passwords and I will give you mine.

cd :O)

This is why I work for myself

What’s next? Employers asking for your ATM card and code and to put them in your Will? This is harassment! If I ever find myself at a job interview (which I make damn sure I will never have to) and stupid requests are made I would just be so thrilled to tell them to F-off.

I LOVE working for myself. No BS, no hassle, no drama, take a day off whenever I want to, no quotas, no lame micromanaging manager, no harassment, I can be late and no one cares, no excuses and the list goes on

I would never give any of my passwords to anyone, even my current employer. I would not have thought twice about telling an interviewer how I felt about giving my password to him or her. I would say it is not his or her business. I would also say I’m offended to be asked such a question. Also, interview questions like that are red flag warnings that the environment would be dysfunctional and stressful. I would run like hell too.

I feel it is not their business. What you do or what happens after work as long as it is not on the compaines grounds is your business. If I show up to work wide eyed and awake who should care if I was hanging by a tree all night. I do like ChrisCD O you give me all your worker and your password and then I will give you mine. I am there to work and how I play after work as long as I am not in jail should be my own business.

That’s ridiculous. He did the right thing, especially in withdrawing his application

I am sickened by the way most of this generation of people think! We the people have an absolute right to privacy. An employer does not own you… You work for them to EARN a living for you and your family. We are forced to give our Social Security number to everyone when it has absolutely nothing to do with our retirement. It has become an identification number that can make or destroy you. No one stands up to tyrants, we all just walk willingly into the meat grinder day after day and allow these idiotic corporations to walk all over our rights, liberty and freedoms. I am a business owner and would never ask an person that has given their time, the only true resource that we have, to my company in trade for money for passwords of any kind. The only reason I would ask for personal information is to satisfy the maf….ooops I mean the government.

I can’t believe it would be legal for an employer who hasn’t even hired you yet to ask for such personal information. Why would they need that? There is nothing there that is any of their business. Justin absolutely did the right thing and I certainly hope this is not going to be a trend in hiring practices.

I just posted a rather lengthy blog post in regards to this. Imagine the ramifications of the following:

A person is of a particular religious belief – be it Christian, Muslim, Atheist. That is their personal matter and one that is protected by law and is forbidden to be asked during the hiring process.

By allowing access, information could be gathered that is otherwise illegal for an employer to gather – as many people are part of religious groups, tick the box next to their religion or otherwise interact with it.

Now here’s another thought – if your family, friends or other people on your lists have set their profiles to private, meaning only the people they have added (such as you) can see their information and you provide the prospective employer your account information, then you’ve just violated the privacy of ALL the people you are connected with. My wager is you would pay the price legally, not the prospective employer.

Walking out is not only the right thing to do, it is a moral imperative.

In fact, the employer should be publically and severely punished for even asking such a question. This type of thing must be nipped in the bud – NOW. Before it becomes any sort of “standard procedure”.

If necessary, we must completely destroy this (or any) company who dares to demand such information. They must be made into an example so that future companies will not even dare to think that they have the right to ask for any sort of access to our private information.

Stop this now or the future will be a bleak place indeed.

Why in the world would someone want to work for someone that would ask for such information? It’s bad enough that we have to submit ourselves to credit checks (C’mon, the state of my credit has nothing to do with my work ethic – personal hardships, layoffs and a plethora of other things affect my credit, but it has nothing to do with how hard I’ll work for you).
Even if you take every precautionary method available, your name will appear somewhere in some search engine. A simple search will allow an employer to see just enough. There’s no need for them to have access to your passwords.
The fact that someone would actually request this information is ridiculous. Your work ethic shouldn’t be judged based on your social media life. What about the past? I’m sure there have been plenty of wild and crazy people that showed up for work every day and worked their butts off – but they kept their social life out of it and the decision to hire them had nothing to do with their social actions outside of work.
It’s truly an amazing thing – how we are all connected to one another via a simple screen. But clearly there is a dark side to all of this as well. When employers are asking for passwords that should never be shared with anyone for any reason, you have to ask yourself…what’s next?

In the interests of a fair interview process, would it not be acceptable under those circumstances for the interviewee to ask the prospective boss for HIS password as well…. after all, the employer may not want a drunk or bad mouthing employee, but a new employee does not want a drunk and abusive boss either!!

HaHa Well it was to be expected. The selling of total disregard for any citizens personal privacy or for them to expect any was started long ago. It was inevitable, like blindly following corrupt politicians.

What kind of person or company would ask for that information and why. Seems suspect to me, they probably hide or don’t have open customer testimonials either.

In a world where we as people pay our hard earned money to a company and they don’t even have people answering the phone to help us make their products work.

Just don’t work there, any company that doesn’t even have respect for the basic rights of other people is trouble. EVIL

This Zombie police state mentality is hurting our entire nation.

WOW thats insane. Do they publish all of that information about themselves, ask them for their passwords.