In recent months, we’ve seen a distressing increase in reports of employers or others seeking to gain inappropriate access to people’s Facebook profiles or private information. This practice undermines the privacy expectations and the security of both the user and the user’s friends. It also potentially exposes the employer who seeks this access to unanticipated legal liability.

The most alarming of these practices is the reported incidences of employers asking prospective or actual employees to reveal their passwords. If you are a Facebook user, you should never have to share your password, let anyone access your account, or do anything that might jeopardize the security of your account or violate the privacy of your friends. We have worked really hard at Facebook to give you the tools to control who sees your information.

As a user, you shouldn’t be forced to share your private information and communications just to get a job. And as the friend of a user, you shouldn’t have to worry that your private information or communications will be revealed to someone you don’t know and didn’t intend to share with just because that user is looking for a job. That’s why we’ve made it a violation of Facebook’s Statement of Rights and Responsibilities to share or solicit a Facebook password.

Facebook takes your privacy seriously. We’ll take action to protect the privacy and security of our users, whether by engaging policymakers or, where appropriate, by initiating legal action, including by shutting down applications that abuse their privileges.

https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-and-privacy/protecting-your-passwords-and-your-privacy/326598317390057

 

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The obvious BTified reply here would be:
Don't apply for jobs asking for a Facebook Username/password.

 

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Where's my damn Like button?

 

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New Jersey is going to pass a law which makes it unlawful to ask for your password/user name and even make it unlawful for an employer to even ask if you are on a social media site.

I do not use facebook (any social media asides from VN) but I like the law.

Employers in this state are not allowed to ask your age, if you are married, have a medical condition, are gay, etc and this can all be seen with employers getting your log in. The employer is technically breaking hippa laws, discrimination laws and possibly other laws by seeing your page.

Edit: I want to see my prospective employers page though. I want to know what kind of a person I am going to work for. Lets see how far that gets.

 

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wait.. employers are really asking for username and password of facebook accounts?


i would tell them to go f*** themselves right there

Yes, they really are, especially employers that are involved in any kind of law enforcement and/or require security clearances.

 

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lol, the people that run facebook are a bunch of smart n3rds.

Wait so they are going to start suing users?

Prospective employers have no relation with FB... the user would be the one violating the contract...

 

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Then it would be OK if I asked for your bank information? Because, you have an account at the bank, I don't.

 

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no the companies that require it as a condition of employment.

and shuttering a companies facebook site and apps that use facebook info is a option they may use along with legal proceedings.

they cant legally ask to access to your private email password, so why should employers be able to access your social network account?

 

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