CHICAGO (AP) — In an Aug. 1 story about a new Illinois law that bars employers from asking for job applicants’ social media account passwords, The Associated Press erroneously reported the Illinois Institute of Technology’s abbreviated name. The school is known as IIT, not ITT. A corrected version of the story is below: Illinois employers can’t ask for Facebook logins Illinois employers barred from asking job applicants to hand over social networking passwords By JASON KEYSER Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Seeking to guard the privacy rights of the social networking generation, Illinois is making it illegal for employers to ask job applicants for passwords to their online profiles. Gov. Pat Quinn signed the law Wednesday at the Illinois Institute of Technology, where several students lamented that online snooping by bosses has caused some to lose out on jobs and forced others to temporarily deactivate their online profiles. Illinois is only the second state to have such a law on the books, and it leaves no exceptions — even for openings that require thorough background checks. In their efforts to vet job applicants, some companies and government agencies have started asking for passwords to log in to a prospective employee’s accounts on social media sites, such as Facebook and Twitter.   Original post on huffingtonpost.com →   Comments on reddit.com →