From: LordoftheMorons | #059
Asking for a password is a huge and unacceptable breach in privacy. I would be astonished if the courts ruled it legal.
Forcing you to log in or friend a business account are pretty awful too, and I doubt I would stand for either of them.
It's perfectly legal, look:
Hey, LotM, give me your gamefaqs password or I won't vote for you in UOTY
What's wrong with this? Nothing. You don't care that I'm asking for your password because you don't care about what I am offering. I can make whatever offer I want, it's up to you to accept it or not.
Now how about this:
Hey, LotM, give me your gamefaqs password and I'll give you $10K
You would obviously take this deal, but why? Because you really want that $10K. But is this exchange illegal? It's against the gamefaqs ToS, sure, but that only means the account will be closed. Neither of us are gonna be charged for any crime.
So the problem isn't about asking for the password, that is merely a symptom. The real problem is that employers have way too much leverage over the job-seekers in this economy. It's 100% an economic issue. Fix the economy, and the balance shifts towards the job-seekers, and ALL symptoms are fixed, not just this ONE, SUPERFICIAL, INSIGNIFICANT symptom.
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