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Applying for a job with the City of Bozeman? You may be asked to provide more personal information than you expected.
That was the case for one person who applied for employment with the City. The anonymous viewer emailed the news station recently to express concern with a component of the city's background check policy, which states that to be considered for a job applicants must provide log-in information and passwords for social network sites in which they participate.
The requirement is included on a waiver statement applicants must sign, giving the City permission to conduct an investigation into the person's "background, references, character, past employment, education, credit history, criminal or police records."
"Please 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.," the City form states. There are then three lines where applicants can list the Web sites, their user names and log-in information and their passwords.
SOURCE: Montana's News Station
So I'm posting this because this is taking place in my town (Bozeman, Montana) and because it's been getting some fairly big media attention lately.
Anyway, what does everyone think of this? I personally think this is an outrageous violation of privacy. Why should anyone have to give the city access to such sites? It is possible to look at people's myspace pages without a password. Why can't that be enough?