City officials in Bozeman, Montana, seemed to think that city employees should have nothing to hide. On employment applications, they demanded that prospective employees list their user names and passwords to "personal or business websites, web pages or memberships on any Internet-based chat rooms, social clubs or forums, to include, but not limited to: Facebook, Google, Yahoo, YouTube.com, MySpace, etc." After local media reported the demands, the city backed down.I'd have loved to have been in the meeting where they decided that this was acceptable to try and require.
That and I'd love to have one of those applications to fill out just to point at it and laugh my ass off.
There is, simply no possible rationalization for a prospective employee to be required to supply private access information to online sites.
Rule #273 is Private Information is Private for a Reason
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