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U.S. employees set to be forced to give bosses their Facebook PASSWORDS (dailymail.co.uk)
2 points by eplanit on April 23, 2013 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



This is an old controversy. If you are an employer that does this, you could face legal action from Facebook's legal team.

"by engaging policymakers or, where appropriate, by initiating legal action, including by shutting down applications that abuse their privileges."

http://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-and-privacy/protectin...

I was really happy that Facebook came out with that. I don't think the policy will change even with the next CISPA-like thing going on.




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