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May 9th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Lawmakers in the House and Senate unveiled a bill on Wednesday designed to prevent employers from asking for website passwords from job applicants or employees.
News reports highlighted a recent trend where companies and some government agencies asked for personal login information for sites like Facebook and Twitter as a way to more thoroughly vet prospective and current employees.
But privacy advocates and lawmakers say that’s going too far.
“Employers seeking access to passwords or confidential information on social networks, email accounts, or other protected Internet services is an unreasonable and intolerable invasion of privacy,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., told reporters on Wednesday. “With few exceptions, employers do not have the need or the right to demand access to applicants’ private, password-protected information.”
The Password Protection Act would prohibit that practice and establish monetary fines.
Blumenthal is championing the bill along with Sens. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H.
A companion bill was introduced in the House by Reps. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., and Ed Perlmutter, D-Colo.
The bill would prohibit employers from forcing employees or job applicants to reveal their account information as a condition of employment. Employers would also be blocked from discriminating or retaliating against people who don’t give up their passwords.
“Online privacy lives and dies with your password, and being forced to surrender this level of protection to an employer for fear of retribution is bullying, plain and simple,” Wyden said.
Blumenthal and Schumer have pressed government officials to investigate companies that ask for passwords, and Facebook has spoken out against the practice.
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