House votes down law to stop employers from asking for Facebook passwords

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A proposed amendment that would have prohibited employers from demanding potential hires' usernames and passwords to social networking sites was shot down Wednesday in the U.S. House of Representatives, a day after its proposal, reports TechCrunch. The amendment lost with 236 votes against 184.

The legislation was proposed by Representative Ed Perlmutter (D-Colo.), and would have been added onto the Federal Communications Commission Process Reform Act of 2012, H.R. 3309. This amendment would have allowed the FCC to stop employers from asking job applicants for confidential information like their usernames and passwords to social networking sites like Facebook.

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I think that this is quite bad because why does any employer have to ask for a password. You must be mad to do that.