"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
Recently it's been written that companies are asking applicants for their Facebook logins and email addresses during job interviews. I find behavior such as this to be reprehensible. It would be unheard of for an employer to ask to search your home or mail, yet email and personal messages are allowed?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/28/facebook_employer_passwords_amendment/
So a few representatives in Congress wanted to pass a law outlawing this. Why is a law even necessary? It's already in the Constitution, even so, I'm all for this, and yet it got shot down.
Why?
Look, I generally vote on the "Conservative" side of things, yet I'm beginning to wonder why. I don't agree with this, I don't agree on abortion, and other things. I always considered myself socially liberal and fiscally conservative, but throwing the bill of rights out the window is just way more than I can stomach.
If some employer, not named NSA, FBI, DoD or CIA asked me for anything like this I would definitely not take the job. I've done work for the DoD and other gov't agencies and they never invaded my privacy like this. I've had to take drug tests and had background investigations, and although I don't think they provide much value(see Aldrich Ames or Robert Hanssen) that's a requirement for gov't work, but private companies asking this is absurd. And anyone who is in Congress not supporting the 4th amendment is utterly ridiculous...
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