NO WAY!!!
An employer hires an applicant based on his
skill or knowledge on the job he/she was applying for. It is not within the context
of an employer-employee relationship that a would-be-employee must first comply
with the demand that he/she must first waived her privacy with regard to his
Social Network Account as a pre-condition for the employment to the company.
In the U.S, where majority of our laws are patterned,
a bill, House Bill 308, was recently [May 16, 2012, to be exact] passed by Rep. Darryl Scott of Dover prevents employers in requiring employees or job applicants to surrender their login and
password to social media websites and also, it prevents employers from accessing an employee’s or applicant’s site indirectly
through another person connected to the person.
As MSNBC quotes Facebook spokesperson Frederic
Wolens saying that these type of requirements are a clear violation of the
site’s terms of service: “Under our terms, only the holder of the email address
and password is considered the Facebook account owner. We also prohibit anyone
from soliciting the login information or accessing an account belonging to
someone else,” says Wolens
Lastly, if we all live in a totalitarian
regime, maybe there would be no issue when employers require employees to submit
their login and password to social media websites to them, but as it is, we still have the
Constitution to protect us.
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