ACLU Challenges Employer Asking Staff To Share Their Facebook Logins
Should prospective employers be allowed to look through your personal Facebook page prior to hiring or recertifying you? Maryland's Department of Corrections seems to think so.
Should prospective employers be allowed to look through your personal Facebook page prior to hiring or recertifying you? Maryland’s Department of Corrections seems to think so.
Maryland’s DOC has a policy allowing them to obtain Facebook login information from prospective employees and current staff undergoing re-certification; the policy allows the employer to read the entirety of their account, including wall posts and messages from friends and family.
A challenge to this started last January; the American Civil Liberties Union sent a letter to the Maryland’s Public Safety Secretary Gary Maynard, on behalf of corrections officer Robert Collins.
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