The issue of employers demanding that current and future employees hand over their Facebook passwords has been causing a bit of a stir of late. Even Facebook itself got in on the action. We imagine the words “I quit” echoing across many a boardroom if more companies started applying the policy.
In the United States, two lawyers have decided that enough is enough and intend sticking it to the man. Good for you lawyer boys. Even Senator Richard Blumenthal has had enough of this talk of snooping about people’s Facebook pages so he intends to introduce a bill that will prevent companies’ nosy tendencies from catching on. Good for you Rich!
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“Senator Blumenthal is deeply troubled by reports of employers asking job applicants and current employees to surrender the login information for their social media accounts,” says Nu Wexler, Blumenthal’s communications director. “He believes the practice is an unreasonable invasion of privacy and he is working on legislation that would ban it.”
To lighten the mood, the dudes at The Joy of Tech put together a little comic relief around the matter.
