Facebook passwords and employment: why data protection works and Facebook’s promise to take legal action to protect privacy doesn’t
28 March 2012
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The Huffington Post has recently published a story that begins thus: “When Justin Bassett interviewed for a new job, he expected the usual questions about experience and references. So he was astonished when the interviewer asked for something else: his Facebook username and password”. So what would you do in such circumstances? And what would the data protection implications be if this happened in the UK? The conclusions I have reached is that the UK Data Protection Act would apply
