From the article: "No one has ever removed his or her name from consideration for a job due to the request, Sullivan added."
This reminds me of the Milgram Experiment, in that very few will refuse authorities orders on even severe matters (in the experiment it was potentially killing someone), so why are people going to refuse it on something seen to be as trivial as a facebook password. However, this is a breach of one of the fundamental human rights, the privacy of thought which in the US has been extended, in some cases, to entire laptops at border crossings.
This reminds me of the Milgram Experiment, in that very few will refuse authorities orders on even severe matters (in the experiment it was potentially killing someone), so why are people going to refuse it on something seen to be as trivial as a facebook password. However, this is a breach of one of the fundamental human rights, the privacy of thought which in the US has been extended, in some cases, to entire laptops at border crossings.