Story has now been updated: >> A flood of criticism has prompted a Montana city to drop its request that >> government job applicants turn over their user names and passwords to >> Internet social networking and Web groups....
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/06/19/us/AP-US-Internet-Background-Checks.html ----- "Nathan" <[email protected]> wrote: > From: "Nathan" <[email protected]> > To: "English Wikipedia" <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, 19 June, 2009 16:12:59 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, > Portugal > Subject: [WikiEN-l] US city requires Internet account passwords from > employees > > http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/06/19/us/AP-US-Internet-Background-Checks.html > > > New employees, and perhaps current ones (?), are being asked to provide > details of all web-based accounts, including forums and social networking > sites. Details are meant to include usernames and passwords. Maybe we should > have a user category of "Public employees in Bozeman, Montana" just in > case... I doubt this turns into a new wave of intrusiveness, at least in the > near future, but its disturbing even as an isolated case. For the legal > types, any caselaw on whether employers (public or private) can demand this > sort of information without violating the "implied right to privacy"? > > Nathan > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
