Employers and schools would be prohibited from asking workers, job applicants and students for access to their Facebook or other social media accounts under a state Senate budget amendment approved this week.
The proposed legislation would bar them from requiring or asking an employee, applicant or student to provide their account user names or passwords, or asking to be added to their contact lists.
Private communications and activities deserve the same protections online as offline, said Gavi Wolfe, legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, which backs the bill filed by Sen. Cynthia Creem (D-Newton).
"We instinctively understand that it's not OK for employers or schools to listen in on our gatherings of friends, look at photo albums in our house, read our mail," he said. "If it's not meant to be viewable by the public, then your boss has no business asking about it."
Similar laws have passed in states including California, Colorado, New Jersey and Vermont.
Associated Industries of Massachusetts, the state's largest employers group, said there's concern about the bill, but not panic. Most of its members say their online research on job applicants is done through Google searches — looking for criminal behavior and making sure a resume is correctly represented — rather than digging into social media, spokesman Christopher Geehern said.
"There's some measure of urban myth in this whole thing saying, 'Oh, dude, you better take down the party pictures before you go out and get that job, because somebody is going to be looking at them,'" he said. "But what we tell employers is that reviewing social media pages is a real minefield … because it … opens (them) up potentially to accusations that they may be using a candidates' protected class as the basis either not to hire or terminate."
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