Tag: Employers

Two Password Protection Bills Signed in California
A few months ago, multiple reports surfaced of employers abusing their power to extract social media passwords from current of prospective employees - and the topic gained a lot of...
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Looking For A Job? Want To Keep Your Job? Clean Up Your Facebook Activity
Want an incentive to refrain from posting that bellybutton tequila shot picture from Vegas on Facebook? How about the fact that nearly half of company execs think that they should...
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Should Congress Move To Ban Employers From Demanding Employees’ Facebook Passwords?
If your future employer or current boss asks you for your Facebook password, it might soon be against the law. That's because there is new national legislation against the practice...
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California Bill Banning Employers From Seeking Facebook Passwords Sees Full Support
This Facebook snooping by employers thing has really struck a nerve. Ever since it was reported that there was...
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Employers Are Still Patrolling Facebook, And Your Drunk Stripper Photos Are Why You’re Not Hired
Before you post that picture of you and your friends hanging out with those strippers in Vegas, remember that your future employer might be watching. Since the advent of Faceb...
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Facebook Use On Company Computers: Not A Federal Crime
Go into any office anywhere and you are guaranteed to find people who, at one time or another, have used the company's computers to send a personal email or take a few minutes to c...
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A Social Networking Bill Of Rights? Maybe
By now you've likely heard of last month's scandal about employers requiring employees to h...
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Teacher’s Aide Suspended: Yet Another Facebook Password Battle
Yet another former employee is fighting a legal battle against employers after being suspended for refusing to hand over access to her Facebook account. Teacher's aide Kimberly Hes...
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Facebook Password Privacy Motion Blocked By House Republicans
Remember last week when news broke of shady employers requesting passwords to em...
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The Employers Demanding Facebook Passwords Debate Moves To The State Level
Employers asking for prospective employees' Facebook passwords: it's been on everyone's mind lately after some...
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Facebook Not Suing Over Employee Password Scandal
When Facebook came out on the side of employees and job seekers who did not want to reveal their passwords to prying employers, people cheered. The company that is increasingly see...
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Employer Facebook Password Requests To Get DOJ Investigation?
Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), who announced last week that he was drafting legi...
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Facebook: Employers Asking For Facebook Passwords Alarming, Distressing
It's been a big topic in the news lately, one that particularly troubles privacy activists and your average Facebook user alike: Employers, governmental agencies, and even college...
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Employee Facebook Passwords: Another Complication
The scandal about employers asking for employee and interviewee Facebook passwords is growing fast....
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