Montana City Requires Workers' Internet Accounts

Pretty sure I'd list my online ACLU membership first...

Pretty sure I'd tel they could bloody well bugger off!!

I'm wondering what's driving this absurd request. What incriminating / embarassing piece of information has leaked out of the apparently dubious goings-on in the depths of the Bozeman city government?

Did someone spill the beans about who's been doing which crimes against nature with you-know-who down in Payroll? Or who's been seen leaving what contractor's office with large rectanguar bundles stuffed down their pants? Or what's really in the salisbury steak served at the city schools?

There's some juicy story behind this somewhere. I think we need to find it.

Passwords!

Log-ins and passwords!

My word. My bleeding ass. My oh my the lawsuits!

Not on their application form on city webpage. However, the local paper is running a pole on this issue. Apparently, during background checks, applicants are asked for this information.

As of 8 PM Friday night, 98 percent against.

Gotta be illegal, to discriminate against anyone who doesn't provide such confidential information. Therefore, to ask for it is unenforceable and meaningless.
Is this the 'Freedom' that the USA is so keen to export?
You'd all be up in arms (Any Americans reading this) if some Muslim state was doing it!
Shame on them...
Del

GA Del, you are exactly right. This is the type of freedom that our govt is trying to export, god help us all...

So what's the big deal?????

No one is complaining about the motorcycle helmet checkpoints, the auto registration checkpoints, the mechanical inspection checkpoints (in Virginia), the drunk driving checkpoints, the seat belt checkpoints, the pre-employment drug tests, the pre-employment criminal record checks, the pre-employment financial checks, the <ad naseum>...

Well, except me! Just one more example of the erosion of our personal liberties. Wake up Americans. The First Amendment (not to mention the Constitution as a whole) is no longer taken seriously by those who know better what's good for us...

Hooker

This just points out why we must all maintain plausible deniability.

As the recent example of the case of the missing sparkstation points out cr4 will protect our right to privacy.

using your real name & talking about what idiots your employer may be might not be the best idea... or posting who knows what incriminatory evidence on utube or facebook, twitter [insert resource] might not be in your best interest....

While there may be freedom of speech, there is also employment at will.

What you say can & will be held against you.

Gee I don't have any accounts using my legal name, that I wouldn't let any one look at, though I wouldn't give my passwords to anyone as that would be a violation of the policies for all the internet resources mentioned...