On Tuesday November 12, 2013 in Madison, Wisconsin, lawmakers were discussing the banning of access to employers of the applicants Facebook and email passwords along with criminalizing so-called revenge porn under two new Internet privacy bills that were passed. The first bill will still allow employers to look at the public postings of the potential employee, but prohibit them from being able to gain access to their private content that can only be accessed with the obtaining of their passwords. The second bill passed was one that would criminalize ‘revenge porn’ or the releasing of private images by a sour former significant other in order to humiliate them. With these two bills a lot of new issues are arising. The issues range from the fact that with evolving technology employers must become more lenient. The fact that now that social media is so prominent in our society and media can be disbursed at such a rapid pace, means that someone who is bitter or is seeking revenge and has incriminating or embarrassing images, can get them out to a large variety of people within a short amount of time. Representative Melissa Sargent said legislators are trying to keep up with the evolving technology and with the passing of this new bill; efforts are being made in order to keep private content of potential employees as private as possible.
My take on this is the fact that you have to take
major precaution in today’s world with the content that you choose to
share. Whether it is public content that
you share with the world, or private content you wish to keep to yourself or
select others, in the growing world of technology and social media the line is
becoming more and more blurred between the two.
The only way to truly take out discrimination based on someone’s email
or Facebook is if they are not asked about it at all. When an employer asks and you are not
necessarily obligated to show them say your Facebook, you still feel somewhat
obligated as you think that if you turn them down that they will assume you
have content to hide. I do like the
addressing of so-called ‘revenge porn’ just due to the fact that this is a
growing issue in the lives of teens and young adults. Now that media can be sent almost instantly
from a computer or even a mobile device, it is much more dangerous to have
pictures or even worse video of private things that were not meant for the eyes
of the public. At the end of the day I
feel the most important lesson to be learned is that you have to be very
careful and selective with what you post online in any medium.
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