Job candidates may have to provide their Facebook login information to obtain employment

Perhaps your unemployment benefit or severance has run out. In this fiercely competitive market, you’re starting to become more frustrated. You'd be supprised if the interviewer asked you about your Facebook profiles. The Boston Globe is reporting that some recruiters are asking job seekers to give up their Facebook login information so they can check over their profiles. Some companies and government agencies are going beyond merely glancing at a person's social networking profiles and instead asking to login as the user to have a look around. Many need employment and may have to provide their Facebook login details to obtain it. Apparently, this practice is much more common among law enforcement positions. Meanwhile, privacy law experts worry about how the line between private and public life is being blurred in social media. David Fraser, a Halifax-based privacy lawyer who runs the Canadian Privacy Law Blog, called this act "a completely unjustified invasion of privacy." Do you agree with him?