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Facebook Password Sharing Nowadays, employers and schools screen applicants from their social media accounts. For example, the applicant's Facebook profile could be used to obtain information such as age, residence and even academic history. What concerns Joanna Stern in the article "Facebook Password Requirements May Break the Law, Senators Say" is the fact that employers and schools require employees and students to provide their Facebook passwords to access their their profiles. This practice poses unexpected legal liabilities. Therefore, government officials have risen against this practice. Indeed, requiring a user to share their Facebook account password to access the user's profile is morally wrong and does not achieve its intended goal. The most basic problem with the practice of requiring employees and students to share their Facebook passwords with the administration is illegality. Without explicit federal legislation to sue employers and schools that propagate this practice, as noted by Botros (2013), proving illegality could be a challenge. However, the Terms of If...