Topic of the day: Bozeman is in the news

Not sure if no news is bad news in this case. The Montana city became famous all over the world last week when the city government requested job applicants to handover their passwords of social networks (e.g. Facebook, MySpace) The purpose is obviously for finding out if the applicants have done anything improper and disclosed through social networks. When the news first broke, their official still defended it and said they did not violate privacy, which caused even more uproar. Finally they decided to abandon that practice, but I'm afraid it's already too late for damage control. The damage has been done!