Town in Montana Wants to Violate Your Privacy

The town of Bozeman, Montana will now require all applicants for city jobs to provide login credentials to any social networking sites they belong to. The city doesn't just want the usernames, it wants the passwords too. Asking for just the links to the page would be reasonable, but gaining password access to the accounts would allow the city to see a host of private information. Not only would the applicants' information be exposed, but that of their friends could be as well. The city says the information would only be used to evaluate the integrity of the applicants, but one disgruntled employee or one hacker could expose all of the information. The city held a meeting earlier today, likely to discuss the controversy over this policy.

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BillyBuerger on June 19, 2009 04:49PM Wow, that's messed up. I'd be tempted to setup a brand new account somewhere and fill it up with "incriminating" information with some sort of tracking to try and catch them going beyond what they say they do. Even if they don't, it'd be fun to fuck with them for even asking. "Here's the login for my personal webcam page where you can see me... Well, you know. ;-)" reply to this

Bosco on June 19, 2009 06:41PM Ya I read about this today. I would have no issue showing them posts that I made but I would never give them my access codes not in a million years. I think they need to take another look at what they are asking. reply to this

injijagwalaafq on June 20, 2009 03:01AM I would not trust any of the accounts to be un-compromised for more than a second, weather by a hacker or other wise. reply to this

Waco on June 20, 2009 07:03AM Passwords? Yeah, fuck no. reply to this

RADEON on June 20, 2009 09:12AM Just tell them, "I am not a member of any networking sites." problem solved. reply to this

personancog on June 20, 2009 02:51PM "dont lie to me* "swoosh@xxxx.com" "password 123456" WE KNOW EVERYTHING!" oh yeah and we do not allow twitter in Bozeman. reply to this

Venocide on June 20, 2009 07:34PM what keeps the fcc to work with ISP's to monitor ur comp and passwords? NADA. reply to this

RADEON on June 21, 2009 08:40AM Why would the FCC give a hoot what some town in Montana is doing? Why would the FCC help them? Like they are really going to waste time getting passwords for twitter for some paranoid town in montana. reply to this

RJR on June 21, 2009 07:47PM Well, that didn't take too long: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10269770-38.html reply to this

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