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What is infuriating is that there is no political will to put a legal stop to this practice. I suspect that this means that as businesses learn how to alleviate the OP's concerns that they will do it more and more as time goes on, until it becomes the new normal.

Libertarianism being the dominant political philosophy of the moment such encroachments seem inevitable.

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Libertarianism being the dominant political philosophy of the moment

I fail to understand how one could look at the events of the last decade and determine that the major problems are that people have too much freedom and government has too little power.

When unemployment skyrockets and employers may begin colluding to wield all the indirect coercion they like, because threatening homelessness and possibly starvation is somehow more ethical than threatening violence, that's a libertarian policy towards non-state power.

Interestingly, most of the employers that have been specifically identified as demanding Facebook passwords are government agencies: http://courantblogs.com/investigative-reporting/claim-check-...

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