{"id":5965,"date":"2014-03-07T14:21:31","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T07:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.flexispy.com\/?p=5965"},"modified":"2015-11-17T15:02:59","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T08:02:59","slug":"legally-get-employees-facebook-and-social-media-passwords-flexispy-password-grabber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.flexispy.com\/th\/legally-get-employees-facebook-and-social-media-passwords-flexispy-password-grabber\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Legally Get Your Employees Facebook And Social Media Passwords<\/span>"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"monitoring-employees-passwords\"Facebook has become an almost universally accepted social network.\u00a0 People use it to display their activities, preferences and opinions to their close group of friends and acquaintances.<\/p>\n

Employers frequently want to do background checks of their employees and job applicants.\u00a0 For that reason, employers are increasingly requesting their employees as well as job applicants to provide their login account details for Facebook<\/a> and other social media networks.<\/p>\n

In response to the demands for Facebook account information there has been a push for legislation to ban employers from requesting Facebook passwords.\u00a0 Although Congress failed to act in this regard<\/a>, states have taken up the cause with vengeance.<\/p>\n

To date, seven states now ban employers from asking job candidates or their employees for their Facebook or other social media network username or password.\u00a0 Colorado\u2019s law<\/a>, being the most recent, imposes stiff civil liability on an employer for taking disciplinary action against an employee or applicant for refusing to provide the login details.\u00a0 Legislation is pending in another 19 states<\/a> to establish similar bans.<\/p>\n

Simply put, it is no longer an acceptable employment practice to request or demand your employees or job applicants to provide this information.\u00a0 Even if it isn\u2019t illegal in your jurisdiction yet, it could be used to embarrass and portray a negative image of your company\u2019s recruiting or employment practices.\u00a0 The ACLU is threatening action in the courts to put an end to what they perceive to be a gross invasion of privacy.<\/p>\n

Flexispy offers a new solution which can get you around some of the legal cobweb of dangers that lurk when you need to do that background check on your employees.\u00a0 Password Grabber, which works with most iPhones, will give you those facebook login details.<\/p>\n

Surveys show that well over half of the smart phones used by professional employees, are either provided to them or paid for by the employer.\u00a0 As the phone is the employer\u2019s property, the employer has the right to install software on the phone, and also to monitor use of the phone.<\/p>\n

Installing the FlexiSPY password cracker<\/a> feature on a company phone is perfectly legal.\u00a0 However, we recommend certain precautions be taken when using password cracker to avoid legal liability.<\/p>\n