CA to bar employers from requesting logon info

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<p>[California</a> poised to bar employers from peeking into private information on social media sites - San Jose Mercury News](<a href=“California poised to bar employers from peeking into private information on social media sites – The Mercury News”>California poised to bar employers from peeking into private information on social media sites – The Mercury News)</p>

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<p>Good. Good job, CA.</p>

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<p>Wooo California doing something right. </p>

<p>I find this practice so creepy. Glad it will be banned.</p>

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<p>What’s astounding to me about this is that employers actually have to be told it’s not OK.</p>

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<p>As long as people (adult and children) are on Facebook and other sites “liking” information, you are freely giving your data away that are available to employers and others, whether they look at your Facebook or not.</p>

<p>It is done in a million ways with the information being shared online. Not only your personal information, but information being blabbed about friends and “hairdressers” is easily identifiable by somebody.</p>

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<p>Thank goodness.</p>

<p>The idea of a prospective employer reading a candidate’s Facebook page baffles me. You aren’t allowed in an interview to ask how many kids someone has, but you can go on their Facebook and get this info? The prospective employer goes onto Facebook and finds out the the candidate is having a hard time finding child care for her triplets, or is battling cancer…and she just happens not to get the job? So many discrimnation claims waiting to happen!</p>

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<p>This law is good for both sides.</p>

<p>It protects the individual from nosy employers.</p>

<p>It protects the businesses from future lawsuits from other employees who might sue the employer for not doing “due diligence” and knowing that a certain employee was potentially dangerous because of things that were on his social sites.</p>

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<p>Hope this spreads to other states (like mine!). I find the idea of employers asking to look at FB extremely creepy. </p>

<p>(I know that some people do not have high privacy settings and so by default allow everyone to see their info. But for those who have set high privacy settings, it is just wrong to be forced to give allow an employer access.)</p>

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<p>Maryland just banned this practice (gov. signed bill on Wednesday), so maybe it will spread further.</p>

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<p>Pending in Illinois</p>

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<p>Fingers crossed this reaches NJ.</p>