In case you’ve not paid attention to the news in the past week, there has been a barrage of stories (over 1500 turned up in a quick online search) about organizations asking job applicants and employees for their Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other social networking passwords. It’s a hot topic folks! I’ve listed a bunch of them at the end of this post. Compelled password disclosure is a very bad idea for organizations to do for many reasons. Here are six that should be compelling to business management: (more…)