[ihateatmfees]

If an (prospective) employer asked for a email/social account password, you should leave immediately, period.

[siavosh]

The trouble, as always, are the more vulnerable people in society. Folks who may not have a lot of options, or really need to stay at a current job. They are more vulnerable to this sort of exploitation. I wish facebook would organize an advocacy group or class action lawsuits against a list of these employers.

[biafra]

Or give you a second password to show a cleaned up profile.

[carbocation]

Then they will require that you give them two passwords.

Or, to crib from jwz: now you have two problems.

[stephengoodwin]

The other issue is these requirements are not listed on job postings and rely on a potential hire to report that it happened.

[dalore]

What if it is for national security, like working for the CIA or MI5?

[zzleeper]

Then they don't need to ask you for it.

[freehunter]

If you're even being considered for a job at the CIA et al, you have a long history trailing behind you that they can dig through. Getting your Facebook information likely wouldn't give them any more relevant data than is already available to these agencies.