{"id":683,"date":"2009-06-22T12:13:42","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T19:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.iamron.com\/?p=683"},"modified":"2009-06-28T16:21:57","modified_gmt":"2009-06-28T23:21:57","slug":"check-your-rights-to-privacy-at-the-door-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.iamron.com\/business\/check-your-rights-to-privacy-at-the-door-please\/","title":{"rendered":"Check Your Rights to Privacy at the Door, Please&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Timmer reports on the city of <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/web\/news\/2009\/06\/city-to-job-applicants-facebook-myspace-log-ins-please.ars  \" target=\"_blank\">Bozeman&#8217;s frightening new anti-privacy policy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"quote\">&#8220;The city of Bozeman Montana&#8230;is now requesting   that potential employees hand over the login credentials for any   social networking sites they frequent&#8221;<\/div>\n<p>Note this is not a request to be added as a friend, but your personal   and private account login information.<\/p>\n<div class=\"quote\">&#8220;Please list any and all, current personal or   business websites, web pages or memberships on any Internet-based chat   rooms, social clubs or forums, to include, but not limited to:   Facebook, Google, Yahoo, YouTube.com, MySpace, etc.&#8221; the form reads.    But Bozeman isn&#8217;t simply interested in finding out where to look for   potentially embarrassing personal details; the city wants full   disclosure,  since the form <em><strong>demands username and password   information<\/strong><\/em> for each. City employees will apparently be   able to dig through any information applicants have put online,    regardless of whether it&#8217;s accessible to the public.<\/div>\n<p>This sounds insanely scary to me.  I don&#8217;t think I have anything to   hide from anybody on my facebook, twitter, or blogs, but if someone   asked me to give them my login credentials to any of those, I&#8217;d tell   them to take a flying leap.  Apparently, I&#8217;m the only one:<\/p>\n<div class=\"quote\">&#8220;&#8230;Sullivan indicated that nobody has objected to   the city&#8217;s request for login credentials.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Timmer reports on the city of Bozeman&#8217;s frightening new anti-privacy policy: &#8220;The city of Bozeman Montana&#8230;is now requesting that potential employees hand over the login credentials for any social networking sites they frequent&#8221; Note this is not a request to be added as a friend, but your personal and private account login information. &#8220;Please [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[12,21],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p20FV9-b1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iamron.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iamron.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iamron.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iamron.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iamron.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iamron.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":769,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iamron.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions\/769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iamron.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iamron.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iamron.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}