Facebook blasts snooping employers

Source: NDTV

San Francisco: Facebook on Friday blasted employers that want to peer at what workers have posted on their personal accounts at the world's leading social network.

Facebook Chief Privacy Officer Erin Egan urged members of the online community not to share passwords with current or potential employers and warned companies to resist pressing for access.

"In recent months we've seen a distressing increase in reports of employers or others seeking to gain inappropriate access to people's Facebook profiles or private information," she said in a blog post.

"The most alarming of these practices is the reported incidences of employers asking prospective or actual employees to reveal their passwords."

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