liberty central's civil liberties villain of the week: City of Bozeman
A new frontier for the invasion of personal privacy, drumroll, please: the City of Bozeman, Montana wants access to job seeker's Facebook accounts. This local government employer asks those soliciting positions with the city to supply a list of social networking sites they frequent, as well as log–in details and passwords as part of a comprehensive background check.
Applicants must sign a waiver granting the city permission to investigate their "background, references, character, past employment, education, credit history, criminal or police records" and must also list
any and all, current personal or business websites, 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
Without going into the obvious security concerns, liberty central wonders if the City of Bozeman also wants to check under its employees' beds?
Hat-tip to Boing Boing.
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