Town Demands Job Seekers’ Social Network Usernames, Passwords!
June 19, 2009
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Bozeman’s demand constitutes unlawful and tortious interference with a contract between third parties; all social networks (indeed, all networks of any kind on the Internet) included as a part of their terms of use that the user will not shar his/her password with anyone else. This is a legal and binding contract with an “electronic signature” under US Federal law. If I lived in Bozeman, I’d apply for a job, refuse to hand over the passwords, and then sue if they didn’t hire me.