Student Expelled for Tweet

[SlowwHand]

How do you figure?

[Lorizael]

What in the Constitution prohibits a private employer from asking you for your Facebook password? There may (or will) be laws against that, but that doesn't make it unconstitutional. It's possible you could argue that the implied right to privacy in the Constitution extends to this, but I think that's a bit of a stretch.

[SlowwHand]

It's not a reach at all. What do you think is their agenda in accessing? What are they examining? You think maybe it's speech?

[Lorizael]

Private employers are allowed to limit speech. Think about NDAs.

[The Mad Monk]

Completely different.

[Aeson]

Employers shouldn't have the right to demand access to employee's Facebook, anymore than they should be able to demand access to their diary or private mail. They do however have the right to throw a party with lots of alcohol and pry information out of you that way. (You really didn't think that company parties were actually for employee morale, did you?)

[loinburger]

What kind of a douchebag expels a student for using the word "****"?

In hindsight, I'm incredibly lucky that I wasn't expelled for calling one of my teachers "impotent." Or for flipping somebody off and yelling "*******" out the window during driver's ed.

[loinburger]

I remember some soccer players at my school getting suspended for three days for mooning the opposing team's spectators, but at least there were actual butts in involved and not just discussion of butts

And some dance squad members were suspended for having new members put things in their ***** during a hazing ritual, but again, there was actual ****-insertage and not just talk of ***** and the things that go in them

[Proteus_MST]

I'm definitely not too happy with companies who ask prospective employees for their Facebook passwords, but I feel that's a step below this. They're not directly violating the Constitution, after all.

What????
Is that really true?
(Some) American companies are planning to force prospective employees to give out their facebook passwords (either that or no chance of getting hired) ???

I mean O.K., spying on Employees by checking what they publicly write on facebook ... thats probably normal nowadays ...
but forcing them to give out their facebook password seems to be a major intrusion into your privacy...
on the same level as forcing them to give out the password to all of their internet board accounts (like Apolyton) and to their most personal eMail accounts

(isn´t it even against the facebook TOS to give your password to anyone? [with other words ... these companies try to get their prospective employees to breach their TOS with facebook])

[The Mad Monk]

Oh, the **** train is just leaving the station on this one. All kinds of people getting all kinds of upset.

[Lorizael]

(isn´t it even against the facebook TOS to give your password to anyone? [with other words ... these companies try to get their prospective employees to breach their TOS with facebook])

Yes. In fact, Facebook has come out and said that none of their users should comply with employers who ask this. They also claim it breaks some law, but I'm not sure which one.

[notyoueither]

Unauthorised access of a computer system?

HR people could be setting themselves up for a world of hurt.

[Proteus_MST]

Unauthorised access of a computer system?

HR people could be setting themselves up for a world of hurt.

Wouldn´t surprise me...
after all these strategies (blackmailing/forcing people into giving out passwords) aren´t discernible anymore from strategies that are used in social hacking

In germany I assume such an attempt would be a violation of Personal Rights as well as Data Privacy laws and maybe even a violation of employment law.
(and even if the company wouldn´t get sued for it, it would be enough to sell the story to the press ... considering the fact that german people are extremly sensitized with regards to their data privacy, the publication of these practices would turn out as a huge PR debacle for the company that uses them)

[BlackCat]

In germany I assume such an attempt would be a violation of Personal Rights as well as Data Privacy laws and maybe even a violation of employment law.

Count in all scandinavian countries.

WTF are wrong with you yanks ?

[The Mad Monk]

Allow me to reiterate:

Oh, the **** train is just leaving the station on this one. All kinds of people getting all kinds of upset.

This is not going to stnad.

Or even stand.