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niyad

(113,510 posts) Wed Mar 21, 2012, 12:00 AM Mar 2012

just as a matter of curiousity, what justification are companies and the govt using to demand

job applicants' social media accounts and passwords?

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just as a matter of curiousity, what justification are companies and the govt using to demand (Original Post) niyad Mar 2012 OP

You don't like it? Let's see you stop us. saras Mar 2012 #1

sadly, you are probably correct. niyad Mar 2012 #2

If I encountered that sort of thing... Lizzie Poppet Mar 2012 #3

back in the dark ages, I was known to walk out of interviews if people asked questions that niyad Mar 2012 #4

saras

(6,670 posts)

1. You don't like it? Let's see you stop us.

Reply to niyad (Original post)

Wed Mar 21, 2012, 03:38 AM

Mar 2012

There doesn't seem to be anything deeper than that.

niyad

(113,510 posts)

2. sadly, you are probably correct.

Reply to saras (Reply #1)

Wed Mar 21, 2012, 10:59 AM

Mar 2012

Lizzie Poppet

(10,164 posts)

3. If I encountered that sort of thing...

Reply to niyad (Original post)

Wed Mar 21, 2012, 11:16 AM

Mar 2012

If I encountered that sort of thing (on an online application process, anyway), I'd be sorely tempted to link to a nice, loud goatze "I'm looking at gay porno" page...or maybe some virus-infested Russian kiddie porn site. It's not like I'd actually work for a company that did that sort of thing...

niyad

(113,510 posts)

4. back in the dark ages, I was known to walk out of interviews if people asked questions that

Reply to Lizzie Poppet (Reply #3)

Wed Mar 21, 2012, 07:15 PM

Mar 2012

were not allowed--and reminded them loudly that such questions were not allowed. would do the same thing today (even though I don't have any social media accounts) because this is beyond unacceptable. like you, I would not work for such a company.

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