Bozeman Reverses Password Demands

The city of Bozeman, Montana has backed down over its request that job applicants hand over their passwords for social networking and blogging sites in order to get a job with city. Bozeman city officials said they'll suspend the practice of reviewing password protected information they've already received until they conduct a more comprehensive evaluation of the practice. Bozeman City Manager Chris Kukulski told news channel KULR:

The extent of our request for a candidacy's password, username, and other internet information appears to have exceeded that which is acceptable in our community.

The Montana ACLU expressed in more diplomatic terms what tens of thousand of people around the world felt when they read about the city's invasive requirements:

Saying that they want people's username and password for social networking sites is crossing the line.

Lisa Derrick is LaFiga at Firedoglake.com

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Comments

[mykebee]

If employers get away with this infringement on our civil rights, what's next?....A legal demand for the job applicants Christmas card mailing list, or perhaps a certified copy your credit card transactions for the last 5 years!!

[LeftRight]

As I said on the original story..... If they want to know what you've done online, it's easy to find your username. They may even ask for that, but to ask for the PASSWORD is going too far!!

[thebigbike]

This is the West of FREE People ! Give us our freedom from restriction and intrusion by the gosh darned federal jack booted thugs, We have our own local jack booted thank you very much !

[plebeianswillrevolt]

Montana sounds nice in an old west kind of way but it is actually the recneck donkey-hole of the earth. Uptight evangelical republicans, Ted Turner, Larry Craig, bible thumping phonies with hidden cameras in the bathrooms at work and email capture software at every workstation. About the same as Oklahoma, only worse, ha, ha, ha.

[LeftRight]

Um..... Montana is not the only place like that..... Hell, look at Georgia!