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  • Essay / Facebook Password Sharing - 567

    Facebook Password SharingEmployers and schools today evaluate candidates from their social media accounts. For example, the applicant's Facebook profile could be used to obtain information such as their age, residence and even academic history. What worries Joanna Stern in the article "Requiring Facebook passwords may break the law, senators say" is the fact that employers and schools are demanding that employees and students give up their Facebook passwords to access their profiles. This practice results in unforeseen legal liabilities. Thus, government officials have spoken out against this practice. Indeed, requiring a user to share their Facebook account password to access their profile is morally reprehensible and does not meet the intended objective. The most fundamental problem with the practice of requiring employees and students to share their Facebook passwords with administration is the problem involved. illegality. Without explicit federal legislation to prosecute employers and schools that propagate this practice, as Botros (2013) observed, proving illegality could prove difficult. However, the conditions of Se...