employers requesting facebook logins...

It's stupid, companies should be forbidden to ask at all. The same with medical records and anything that invades your privacy. What if I went for a job and didn't get it because of a medical condition they found out about?
 
Siliconslave said:
It is a worrying trend. I think if I really wanted the job I'd walk them around the account as a 'reference'. I've got nothing to hide on there but there's no way I'd give free access to the account.

I found it more worrying that my misses got asked for full access to her medical records with a job offer a few months back. She's an accountant FFS and it was one of the conditions of the offer.
She didn't want / need the job so we didn't get to the point of telling them no, but simply the fact that they had the audacity to ask was scary!
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WTF? For an accountant? Name and shame the company in question, those HR jokers have probably got the most to hide.
 
RomanNose said:
It's stupid, companies should be forbidden to ask at all. The same with medical records and anything that invades your privacy. What if I went for a job and didn't get it because of a medical condition they found out about?
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I take it you have never heard of the disability discrimination act?

Why should employers not be allowed to assess the best candidate for the job?
 
Dolph said:
Why should employers not be allowed to assess the best candidate for the job?
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Because they are invading peoples privacy. Facebook and twitter can be private or public, it depends how you set them up. They have no reason why they can request access to private conversations. It will eventually mean that you have to give up your privacy to get a job which is ridiculous.
Yes I have heard of the disability discrimination act, however there will be some conditions that do not come under it and employers will be able to discriminate against it.
 
sigma said:
Do you condone looking at FB accounts? Bugging phones and houses too?
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I neither condone nor condemn the first (the second is just an argument to the absurd fallacy). it is for each individual to decide what terms of employment they are willing to accept, and for the job market to determine the appropriate level of compensation for those terms need to be.

Not happy with the terms, don't take the job, simple.
 
I wouldn't want to work with a company that felt the need to invade there personnel's privacy to such an extent!
I've no problems them looking at my public profile but they wont be getting near my login details.
 
Dolph said:
I neither condone nor condemn the first (the second is just an argument to the absurd fallacy). it is for each individual to decide what terms of employment they are willing to accept, and for the job market to determine the appropriate level of compensation for those terms need to be.

Not happy with the terms, don't take the job, simple.
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I quite agree, I would walk out of any company who requested such details.

I don't see why any company would need to see a FB account, it's an invasion of privacy, as is wanting to listen to all of my conversations on my mobile phone or read my txt messages. I see no difference between them.
 
That would be the end of the application process for me. An interview isn't just about them seeing if they want you to work for them but also for you to learn a bit about the company and if it's someone you want to work for.

Also I certainly wouldn't give that information to anybody I currently worked for.
 
Dolph how far would you allow it to go? You seriously think that we don't need regulations on these type of things because the market will always balance it out?
 
sigma said:
I quite agree, I would walk out of any company who requested such details.

I don't see why any company would need to see a FB account, it's an invasion of privacy, as is wanting to listen to all of my conversations on my mobile phone or read my txt messages. I see no difference between them.
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So would I, or at least, I would be expecting a very substantial premium for the potential impact on my life.
 
they can ask but u dont have to give.
if however you can prove they didnt give you a job purely on your personality or who your friends are then you may have a good case to sue
 
With Friends Like These

With friends like these ...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jan/14/facebook

Facebook has 59 million users - and 2 million new ones join each week. But you won't catch Tom Hodgkinson volunteering his personal information - not now that he knows the politics of the people behind the social networking site.

The US intelligence community's enthusiasm for hi-tech innovation after 9/11 and the creation of In-Q-Tel, its venture capital fund, in 1999 were anachronistically linked in the article below. Since 9/11 happened in 2001 it could not have led to the setting up of In-Q-Tel two years earlier.

I despise Facebook. This enormously successful American business describes itself as "a social utility that connects you with the people around you". But hang on. Why on God's earth would I need a computer to connect with the people around me? Why should my relationships be mediated through the imagination of a bunch of supergeeks in California? What was wrong with the pub?...
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What's wrong with you people...1984 you're embracing it fools
 
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