U.S. employees set to be forced to give bosses their Facebook PASSWORDS?

This is pretty disturbing. I would personally delete my Facebook account before giving someone else my password.

An attempt to ban US bosses from asking employees to hand over their Facebook login details has been blocked by Congress.
A last minute alteration to the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) that would have prevented employers demanding that prospective employees disclose social media passwords as a condition of employment was voted down in the house of representatives.
The proposal, put forward by Democrat Ed Perlmutter was defeated by a 224-189 majority, according to the Huffington Post.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2313367/CISPA-Amendment-US-cyber-attack-law-banning-employers-asking-Facebook-passwords-blocked.html#ixzz2RInzsUnL

 

Giving a password to other people?
I didn't know the real purpose for doing it but surely I oppose the decision to hand over the password.
Is it a company who have thousands of visitor or all company in US?
I wish the house of representatives didn't pass the law.

Arick

 

Anyone ever seen the movie "Fallen" with Denzel Washington? Long story short, it's about a demon energy that can inhabit humans that it chooses to perpetrate evil. At one point, the demon descends upon a cheesesteak cook at the famous Pat's Cheesesteaks in Philadelphia. Once in the host, the demon takes off the cooking apron and begins walking in its new body up to the boss of the cheesesteak shop and he tells the boss, "You can shove this cheesesteak up your @$$". The boss looks at the employee and looks concerned - he then says, "You know, I'm going to have to ---" and then the possessed employee says, "Yeah - put the job where the cheesesteak goes," then he walks out.

That's my reply to an employer that asks for my Facebook password.

Stick this job where the cheesesteak goes.

 

Nice illustration. But that would be below giving out my password. Nothing to do with the initial post.

 

The reason for the password is to protect the account from being accessed by people you don't want accessing it.

Why even HAVE passwords if just anyone can ask for it and you have to give it over? That's ridiculous.

I know I got off topic, I just really wanted to explain that enough so that everyone could understand the reference. When I saw this thread, I immediately thought, "Put the job where the cheesesteak goes"

 

Well, I would never allow anyone to read my personal conversations with anyone. So ... law or not, I am never going to give anybody access to what was between me and another individual.

 

Giving password to the other is a bad idea for privacy. However, it is best to obey the law.
What we can do is Choose the right people in the House of Representative.

Few of my friends in local forum also said the same thing. There must be a reason for everything.
I still have no idea why employee has to share the password?
Is there a good reason for doing it?
The most important thing is:
Did Facebook aware of this situation?
and What they think about it.
My friend said it maybe a campaign to stop Facebook from dominating the social media.

In my simple perspective, the government was trying to protect both party (employee and employer) with wrong way. I even think people in congress were trying to protect us but have no idea on what to do. Well, it just my opinion.

 

That anyone in the house of representatives, US Gov or wherever is even able to debate that employers could or couldn't or should or shouldn't have access to their employees Facebook accounts (and passwords access we are are talking here) is completely barmy in it's self.

Think about it for a moment.

What right does any person or entitiy (unless some serious shit is involved, like Police invetigation or such like) have that entitles them to such a thing?

Now whilst an employer might like to check out an employees FB or other online activity being able to access said employees things in such a way has to work the same the other way round to IMHO...

What a crazy barmy world we live in.

 

As long as there are people willing to give the information, someone will be asking for it.
It's really up to the individual to decide how far they allow someone else to intrude.

 

Lol thats a complete joke

 

I was reading about it on reddit some time ago and thought this is crazy, glad I'm not living in US. But other than that why would anyone need a password anyway, you can pretty much always see what people are up to from their profiles which is enough for a basic background check.

 

True. The only additional information would be whatever is in your inbox.

 

It's like your boss asking for your e-mail's password or your PayPal login password. - They can ask, but are you really going to give it to them because they ask for it?

 

Even the request to share the link to your FB profile is too much, as for me, unless you're planning to work as an SMM

 

The idea that your personal life could be required for employment is only logical if it's impacting the reputation of the company you work for. Tacky for a firm to request it.

 

+1. The reputation of a company's moreover usually created by the company's work. I wouldn't mind partner responsible and trustworthy enterprise, who cares what the employees do, when they're on vacation, for instance, if the job's being done perfectly

 

Totally supporting the idea of keeping your password to yourself, both in personal and working relationship

 

This is absurd, never work for an employer who would even think to ask this. Why not just let them follow you around on the weekend or come over and check out what's in your attic?

Run away from an employer who would ask this, I would just walk out and not even give two weeks notice.

 

I can`t imagine this is true, where is Freedom ? Yes, i know, Freedom is long dead, we're just imagining we are free.