Human resources departments are a cancer in any buisness.

There is a reason that Privacy settings exist…that way you can keep your professional and personal life separate. If they are so worried about what type of person they are do a criminal background check and do a drug test, that is all the information they need. Anything else on your facebook is not something that should be the grounds of choosing to hire or not to hire.

Here’s how to get around it until this bill is passed. Deactivate your accounts except for Linkd-In. Once you are employed, wait a bit, and then go back. You can also change your name so that you won’t be found if you can’t wait.

I will never offer any of my passwords. I can be like a politician and skirt the question with a vague answer like the only social account that I have is Linkd-In. Would you like to look at that?

It should be a Federal law. Also, why are they still allowed to ask for Social Security Numbers before hire?

It’s more than just offering your password. Some employers ask you to sign on and then turn the workstation over to them. They don’t get your password but still have access to confidential information.

Add a protected group like the NAACP to your profile. Give password to Facebook. Blow the interview. Sue their pants of for discrimination. Retire.

Republicans do not respect the Constitution. They kneel at the altar of business interests and don’t care if citizen’s have their privacy invaded……unless it happens to them. then they are outraged and somehow twist the argument to vilify liberals.

GOP=Two faced, political prostitutes

How else can I determine if my potential workforce employees partake in liberal evil deeds such as: devil- worship, domestic terrorism, anti- human, anti- hetero, anti- business, and anti- establishment.

So if I don’t have a facebook account at all and tell them so does this mean the potential employer would assume that I’m lying to them and not hire me?

It’s illegal for a potential employer to ask your age, sexual orientation, marital status or whether you have children. But they think they can ask for Facebook passwords with which they would gain access to this information? Seriously? What I do when I’m not at work is none of their business. They are not paying me for my personal time. What I do when I’m not at work is none of their business.

Employers want so much these days, while offering very little in return. Lower pay, poor benefits, and no long term guarantees. The days of spending a lifetime with the same company, and a comfortable retirement pension are over.

Corporations have become ruthless, and employees have become mindless sheep. Not me. I’ve got news for anyone interviewing me: don’t ask me for my password, or any other discriminatory, confidential information. I get quite animated when I’m pis sed off.

Tenbears has an uncle named Bill.

Tenbears must insist that all the peoples commenting here reveal their passwords.

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Employers can do all kinds of research on a new hire, criminal background checks, credit reports, resume background, education, previous employers, drug tests, they don’t need to ask for passwords to social media sites.

The next thing you know, they will ask you to bring in your home PC, to see what’s on your hard drive. In HELL.

This bill will pass. Why? Because as soon as the super computer being built in Utah by the federal government, and the research in Oak Ridge, TN, into ever faster computer speeds produces another fastest-in-the-world computer, the feds will have the ability to break any encryption from the financial industry and banking records, to personal e-mail. All this is being done under the authority of the Patriot Act. Attorney General Eric Holder recently announced that all data collected under the Patriot Act would now be retained for 5 years. Why? So that the data can be sifted through by the new supercomputer and the encryption broken. So, it matters not whether it is illegal for an employer to have your password; ultimately, the government will have it and all American’s lives will be laid bare. There is a reason the Patriot Act isn’t spoken of any more.

Job creators need to be sure that they aren’t employing terrorists, criminals or other liberals. Only someone who deeply hates America would refuse to comply with a legitimate request for a Facebook password. What are these people hiding???

When in an interview and you get asked for password, ask them for theirs. Better yet suggest they get re-trained in interviewing.

So this requires a bill?? Our elected officials are actually going to spend time drafting legislation, debating and voting on this? What a WASTE of time and money when there are other more important issues.

Brought to you by two Republican representatives. The party of “smaller government”….lol.

Do they think people can’t say say NO on their own without government intervention??

Social media sites are a colossal waste of time. They are essentially “anti-social” since people who rely on them shun contact in person and prefer to live their lives alone.

I am proud to say I don’t have a Faceshmuck or Twithead account.

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