Employers’ prying Facebook access demands raise serious privacy concerns
In a society where privacy is constantly eroding, recent efforts by some employers to pry into Facebook pages to investigate job applicants should be resisted as an unwarranted intrusion on personal freedom and dignity.
Some employers have recently begun requiring job applicants to provide their Facebook user names and passwords so they can review whatever the applicant has posted privately online. Others — so that the password remains secret — are requiring applicants to access their Facebook pages during the job interview to allow the interviewer to see the content.
While the applicant can say no and withdraw from further consideration, at a time of high unemployment — 9.6 percent in Florida — the request is inherently economically coercive. Applicants will often say yes, reluctantly, hoping to land a job…
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I was walking Miya the Wonder Dog today near The Blue Dog Bakery on Frankfort Ave. Just then, a 10-foot-long tandem recumbent bicycle rolled into the alley we were crossing. What else could I do? Naturally, I stopped to find out more about the riders of this awesome traveling La-Z-Boy built for two.
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