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It was not very long ago, when I understood that many prominent employers would demand credentials -- not just your username, but your password too -- for all y
by NoZebra120vClip 3y ago
It was not very long ago, when I understood that many prominent employers would demand credentials -- not just your username, but your password too -- for all your social media accounts, so they could comb through and find stuff on you as a job candidate, never mind if it were personal, private, family-related.
I think they have relented on that sort of intrusion, but then again, I am sure that there are plenty of background check services that can easily penetrate and scrape most social media accounts for anything and everything a prospective employer (or stalker or abuser or LEO) would want to know, for a small price.
- nirav72 3y agoWait, was this actually common? I don’t think I’ve ever applied , got hired and was ever asked for my social media logins at half dozen places I’ve worked at since the early 2000s. Maybe it’s rare or I was just fortunate to never have worked for an employer that did that.
- GauntletWizard 3y agoCommon as in more probable than not? No. Common as in there was a good chance of it, especially for low-level positions (for some reason)? Yes, there are plenty of news articles from the beginning of the 2010s that talk about it.
- idontwantthis 3y agoI remember reading an article from an HR manager who had to do that. He had a woman begin emailing discrimination lawyers in his office because she knew he was about to find out she was pregnant from her Facebook.