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honorh ([info]honorh) wrote in [info]unfunnybusiness,
@ 2009-06-22 15:10:00
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Entry tags:oh for god's sake, wtf?

Why, yes, your taste in Transformers porn *is* important to the job!
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20090619/ap_on_hi_te/us_internet_background_checks

People applying for jobs with the City of Bozeman, MT are being asked for user names and passwords for the social-networking sites they frequent. As the application states: "Please list any and all current personal or business Web sites, 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." The application also asks for your login information for the aforementioned sites.

The Internets go crazy. The ACLU does not approve. Bozeman city officials say, "No, really, it's not as bad as it sounds!" I call bullshit.

Who the hell thought this was a good idea?


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[info]underwaterowl
2009-06-22 07:48 am UTC (link)
brb, rereading 1984 while drinking tequila and laughing bitterly.

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Totally OT, but:
[info]cotume27
2009-06-22 07:51 am UTC (link)
DUDE. YOU HAVE A DOUGIE ICON.

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Re: Totally OT, but: - [info]underwaterowl, 2009-06-22 07:54 am UTC
Re: Totally OT, but: - [info]cotume27, 2009-06-22 08:00 am UTC
Re: Totally OT, but: - [info]underwaterowl, 2009-06-22 08:09 am UTC
Re: Totally OT, but: - [info]cotume27, 2009-06-22 08:22 am UTC
Re: Totally OT, but: - [info]rosehiptea, 2009-06-22 06:46 pm UTC
Re: Totally OT, but: - [info]sparkysrevenge, 2009-06-22 07:04 pm UTC
Re: Totally OT, but: - [info]rosehiptea, 2009-06-22 09:49 pm UTC
Re: Totally OT, but: - [info]serena_took, 2009-06-22 07:06 pm UTC
Re: Totally OT, but: - [info]rosehiptea, 2009-06-22 09:48 pm UTC
Re: Totally OT, but: - [info]deadwood, 2009-06-22 11:35 pm UTC
Re: Totally OT, but: - [info]finchbird, 2009-06-23 05:09 am UTC
Re: Totally OT, but: - [info]greenling, 2009-06-23 04:12 am UTC
Re: Totally OT, but: - [info]cotume27, 2009-06-23 04:15 am UTC
Re: Totally OT, but: - [info]sparkysrevenge, 2009-06-22 07:03 pm UTC
Re: Totally OT, but: - [info]underwaterowl, 2009-06-22 07:07 pm UTC
Re: Totally OT, but: - [info]sparkysrevenge, 2009-06-22 07:10 pm UTC
Re: Totally OT, but: - [info]underwaterowl, 2009-06-22 07:12 pm UTC
Re: Totally OT, but: - [info]kosaginolegion, 2009-06-22 07:45 pm UTC
Re: Totally OT, but: - [info]lady_ganesh, 2009-06-22 08:36 pm UTC

[info]bienegold
2009-06-22 07:59 am UTC (link)
Bitch PLEASE.

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[info]wook77
2009-06-22 08:05 am UTC (link)
People applying for jobs with the City of Bozeman, MT are being asked for user names and password...

Passwords?

...

Passwords? Seriously!? Bitches can fuck off and DIAMFF as far as I'm concerned. No job is worth that fucking shit. Who the hell is dumb enough to give 'em the usernames let alone the PASSWORDS!?

Then again - maybe it's just cause I only have like 5 passwords cause my brain doesn't have the space for more.

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(no subject) - [info]fern_on_fen, 2009-06-23 01:30 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]finchbird, 2009-06-23 05:40 am UTC

[info]also_not_a_pipe
2009-06-22 08:43 am UTC (link)
Maybe it's a secret intelligent test. The applicants who don't go "hahaha, yeah right" and put that stuff down aren't smart enough to qualify for the position.

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(no subject) - [info]atreyu, 2009-06-22 08:45 am UTC

[info]kijikun
2009-06-22 08:49 am UTC (link)
Was someone going to check to make sure people were giving the right passwords?

And really what the hell were they thinking? O_o

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[info]indis_earfalas
2009-06-22 08:52 am UTC (link)
This kind of shit worries me.

I get the logic behind not posting thousands of drunken party pics all over your public profile ... but to be frank, if I've hypothetically got good work and personal references from previous employers and people in the community, I really don't see how how smashed I get on the weekend has JACK to do with my hypothetical job. Apparently other people seem to think its important ... but I think its one of those slippery slope things.

I can also totally get behind employers getting the shits up when people take the day off work sick and then brag about it on facebook ... but does that mean that I can't be sick and in bed with my laptop, bored off my tits because daytime telly is bloody terrible, and posting on the net between naps?

So what would happen if I was silly enough to give a prospective employer my login details for myspace? Why do they need to read my messages and look at my "friends only" pictures (of my kids, incidentally, because I don't want just anyone looking at them). Is the prospective employer going to decide the validity of my job application on the messages that fly between me and my LDR BoyThing?

What if said prospective employer doesn't like people in the army, or Americans ... or ... I don't know, the fact that I describe in loving detail what I had for dinner at my favourite restaurant ... or anything of a personal nature that is really no ones business.

Ridiculous.

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(no subject) - [info]honorh, 2009-06-22 09:14 am UTC
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(no subject) - [info]snarkhunter, 2009-06-22 12:54 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]erototoxin, 2009-06-22 08:12 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]amadi, 2009-06-23 04:56 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]esclaramonde, 2009-06-22 04:20 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]sandglass, 2009-06-22 06:53 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]esclaramonde, 2009-06-22 07:20 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]snarkhunter, 2009-06-23 12:23 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]honorh, 2009-06-23 12:27 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]txvoodoo, 2009-06-23 05:19 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]honorh, 2009-06-23 12:25 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]kijikun, 2009-06-23 12:52 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]honorh, 2009-06-23 04:49 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]hyeri, 2009-06-23 02:05 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]chibikaijuu, 2009-07-01 12:40 am UTC

[info]atalantapendrag
2009-06-22 10:52 am UTC (link)
They've since rescinded the policy.

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(no subject) - [info]stinksap, 2009-06-22 12:55 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]issendai, 2009-06-22 02:52 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]lady_ganesh, 2009-06-22 08:38 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]aliaras, 2009-06-26 05:07 pm UTC

[info]vorpal_blade
2009-06-22 01:54 pm UTC (link)
If someone in the city administration had proposed asking for job applicants to bring in their personal diaries, all of their medical records since they were born and all of the photo albums and home videos in their homes it would have been immediately recognized as a huge invasion of privacy (I hope). It's no different to ask people for usernames and passwords to websites they use. Just because the technology for invading someone's privacy didn't exist in "the olden days" doesn't mean it's not an invasion of privacy.

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(no subject) - [info]weaselistic, 2009-06-22 02:40 pm UTC

[info]iamnotyourmuse
2009-06-22 02:39 pm UTC (link)
One of the other stories I read about this particular nugget of idiocy pointed out that giving a third party your password is in violation of most, if not all, user agreements with sites like facebook. Facebook, I believe, went on record saying that no, this sort of thing was very NOT cool with them.

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(no subject) - [info]weaselistic, 2009-06-22 02:45 pm UTC

[info]sandglass
2009-06-22 03:02 pm UTC (link)
I think this just shows how much people still don't get the Internet. Asking for someone's passwords presumably to see any locked content is rather like asking to go through someone's e-mail inbox, which is painfully obvious to any of us but somehow evades these guys.

Not to mention, Transformers porn aside, there's a lot of perfectly reasonable stuff that could lead to discrimination and I'd be super worried about, say, someone going to the Internet for help about a family member doing illegal things and the family member getting reported. Thank god the generation that doesn't get it is slowly being replaced.

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(no subject) - [info]honorh, 2009-06-23 12:31 am UTC

[info]cygnia
2009-06-22 03:24 pm UTC (link)
Thankfully, Bozeman has since dropped the user name & password part.

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[info]brennalarose
2009-06-22 03:42 pm UTC (link)
BRB need to kick something. They can read my ramblings on religion and politics when they remove the information from my cold dead brain.

(previous comment deleted for a typo and because the cat sat on the keyboard)

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[info]azazello
2009-06-22 05:15 pm UTC (link)
Why the fuss? I'd just answer 'none'.

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(no subject) - [info]anarchicq, 2009-06-22 05:28 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]veleda_k, 2009-06-22 06:27 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]honorh, 2009-06-23 12:33 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]sandglass, 2009-06-22 06:46 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]faultypremise, 2009-06-22 09:27 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]fresco_le_raye, 2009-06-22 11:19 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]faultypremise, 2009-06-23 05:54 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]velvet_mace, 2009-06-22 11:16 pm UTC

[info]rosehiptea
2009-06-22 06:43 pm UTC (link)
They claim there was no penalty for skipping the question, but then why the hell did they ask it in the first place?

And as said above, I'm not giving anybody my passwords.

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[info]julian_black
2009-06-22 06:56 pm UTC (link)
Who the hell thought this was a good idea?

People who think the Internet is a series of tubes.

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(no subject) - [info]kijikun, 2009-06-23 01:40 am UTC

[info]innocentsmith
2009-06-22 06:59 pm UTC (link)
You know, when I had to undergo a professional background investigation for a freakin' waitress job a few years ago, I thought that was ridiculous.

Any job application that asks me for my passwords, ever, would go directly in the trash. Any application that asks for my usernames, even. Where the hell would it even stop? How do you even define what's a social site any more? Do they need to know what products I've reviewed on Amazon? What edits I've made on Wikipedia? Come ON now.

Spending as much time as I do on the internet, I'm used to the idea that my privacy is pretty much subject to the fact that nobody gives that much of a crap, but the idea that people/government folks think they can purposefully invade it - as, like, a RIGHT - is just infuriating.

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(no subject) - [info]erototoxin, 2009-06-22 08:15 pm UTC
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(no subject) - [info]fern_on_fen, 2009-06-23 01:49 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]rosehiptea, 2009-06-23 02:58 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]grand_sealink, 2009-06-23 02:47 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]hyeri, 2009-06-23 02:10 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]digigirl132, 2009-06-23 11:48 am UTC

[info]jkefka
2009-06-22 07:08 pm UTC (link)
And this is why my facebook profile has a notice for potential employers with a link to this comic.

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[info]ladysorka
2009-06-22 09:08 pm UTC (link)
Aside from the complete and utter fail of the whole concept, these kinds of things always make me vaguely worried that one day I'm going to lose on a job because they search for me and don't find a Facebook or a Myspace or anything else under my own name, because a) I don't have them, and b) I'm from the old school of the internet where using your own name is bad.

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(no subject) - [info]faultypremise, 2009-06-22 09:29 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]rosehiptea, 2009-06-22 09:54 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]rosehiptea, 2009-06-22 09:54 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]cygnia, 2009-06-22 10:10 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]hyeri, 2009-06-23 02:13 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]bitca, 2009-06-23 02:24 pm UTC

[info]velvet_mace
2009-06-22 11:00 pm UTC (link)
And while they are at it, could you also provide your bank pin number and the length (in inches) of your penis.

Seriously, though the balls it takes to ask for someone's passwords is pretty enormous. That's not just bending over. That's lubing yourself up and holding yourself spread.

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[info]maybebaby
2009-06-22 11:18 pm UTC (link)
In return, I would like the account names and passwords to all of THEIR accounts. We need to know they're as upstanding as their potential new employees, and fair is fair, right?

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(no subject) - [info]ajatshatru, 2009-06-23 12:59 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]sarracenia, 2009-06-23 06:53 am UTC

[info]tachikoma01
2009-06-23 03:11 am UTC (link)
I can understand wanting applicants to disclose their public profiles [that is, those that could easily be found under their own names] and webpages they own under their own names, if they were afraid of the potential fall-out of a local newspaper running "Drunken works from the city booze it up again!" Or "City employee runs big tits porn cite! FOR SHAME!"

But asking for the PASSWORDS? That's beyond ridiculous.

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[info]finchbird
2009-06-23 05:05 am UTC (link)
My sister warned me about employers looking through their potential employees and current ones when I made a comment on Facebook that had a couple swear words in it. I laughed it off because I rarely go on the site.

This bullshit reminds me of what she told me.

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[info]staroverthebay
2009-06-23 07:11 pm UTC (link)
are being asked for user names and passwords for the social-networking sites they frequent

that's not legal, is it? Every website I've ever been on that has accounts like that, is adamant that you are never going to be asked by a staff member or administrator for your password, so be suspicious of anyone who does.

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[info]grand_sealink
2009-06-23 10:20 pm UTC (link)
So... what was that about Transformers porn?

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