{"id":19,"date":"2009-06-19T17:09:13","date_gmt":"2009-06-20T00:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kamivaniea.com\/?p=19"},"modified":"2012-03-09T17:27:28","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T22:27:28","slug":"city-jobs-require-surender-of-logins-and-passwords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kamivaniea.com\/?p=19","title":{"rendered":"City jobs require surender of logins and passwords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of their job application process the city of Bozeman Montana <a href=\"http:\/\/montanasnewsstation.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=10551414&#038;nav=menu227_3\">requires applicants to surrender login names and passwords<\/a> to all social networking sites they are involved with. The list of sites includes Google, Yahoo, MySpace and Facebook. Supposedly this is so that the city can do a background check and determine that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the people that we hire have the highest moral character.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Read the article for full details but here is my favorite quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153You know, I can understand that concern. One thing that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s important for folks to understand about what we look for is none of the things that the federal constitution lists as protected things, we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t use those. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not putting out this broad brush stroke of trying to find out all kinds of information about the person that we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not able to use or shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t use in the hiring process,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Sullivan said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><b>Update:<\/b> Bozeman has decided to <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/web\/news\/2009\/06\/bozeman-apologizes-backs-down-over-facebook-login-request.ars\">change their hiring practices<\/a> and has apologized for the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153honest mistake.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p><b>Update:<\/b> Looks like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tecca.com\/news\/2011\/11\/30\/facebook-password-jobs\">North Carolina<\/a> does the same thing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of their job application process the city of Bozeman Montana requires applicants to surrender login names and passwords to all social networking sites they are involved with. The list of sites includes Google, Yahoo, MySpace and Facebook. Supposedly this is so that the city can do a background check and determine that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[38,25],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-research","tag-facebook","tag-security"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2u4LH-j","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kamivaniea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kamivaniea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kamivaniea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kamivaniea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kamivaniea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kamivaniea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":516,"href":"https:\/\/kamivaniea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kamivaniea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kamivaniea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kamivaniea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}