Job Applicants: Please Provide Your ATM Password and All Bank Account Numbers

It hasn’t come to this yet, but at this rate — who knows what’s next?  At a police department in North Carolina, applicants for a clerical position are being asked to disclose all social media (e.g. Facebook) accounts AND their user name and password to these accounts.

WTF???  This has to be a new low.  And how much lower can it go from here?

Is this even legal?  It’s easy to just shrug it off with “so, don’t apply for a job there.”  But there are millions of people who are desperate, frantic to find a job, any job.  And they’d probably jump through whatever hoops a potential employer tells them to jump through.

If these Orwellian Kafkaesque practices aren’t against the law, they should be.