Is demanding an applicant's Facebook password illegal? Video
Is demanding an applicant's Facebook password illegal? Video Transcript
Inherently corrosive that there's nothing voluntary about an employer asking a job applicant for log in credentials or passwords. It is corrosive and it unnecessarily invasive, unreasonably intrusive into personal privacy. So there needs to be an effort to strengthen and clarify existing (obit?) in the mean time but a (parliament?) justice and the (ELC?) should be investigating these demands. We're calling for immediate investigation by both federal agencies, the (ELC?) and the quadrant justice using existing law. Just think about this for a minute. By granting a perspective employer access to your Facebook password, someone interviewing you could get access to information that's not otherwise public, your religion, whether you're married or pregnant, how old you are, all the kind of things that are illegal to ask in an interview process. So I suppose above and beyond.
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