<story><title>Employers Banned From Asking For Social Media Passwords In California</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/27/employers-banned-from-asking-for-social-media-passwords-in-california/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>w00kie</author><text>Next time I interview someone for a position at my company, I&apos;m going to ask them for their Facebook password. If they give it to me, they will be automatically disqualified from the hiring process for lack of common sense.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>prophetjohn</author><text>I don&apos;t think this is much better. I wouldn&apos;t work for someone who asked me this question, even if this were the rationale. Who knows why someone would divulge their password. I bet there are reasons other than being completely devoid of common sense.&lt;p&gt;Regardless, I bet that any predictive relationship between willingness to divulge a Facebook password in an interview and the ability to perform adequately as a software engineer is weak at best. To me, an employer who doesn&apos;t understand that shows poor capacity for unbiased reasoning.</text></comment>
<story><title>Employers Banned From Asking For Social Media Passwords In California</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/27/employers-banned-from-asking-for-social-media-passwords-in-california/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>w00kie</author><text>Next time I interview someone for a position at my company, I&apos;m going to ask them for their Facebook password. If they give it to me, they will be automatically disqualified from the hiring process for lack of common sense.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ataggart</author><text>In a similar vein, it&apos;s not clear to me why I should be deprived of the knowledge that a potential future employer is a privacy-invading jerk.  The censor not only infringes on the rights of the speaker, but also the rights of the would-be listeners.</text></comment>