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Strongly disagree.

ANY type of legalized access to employee social media accounts is bad. Period.

Yet this is what we get when we freely throw any of our personal information online.

It legalizes asking for accounts, in very limited circumstances, in a manner that makes is extraordinarily risk simply to ask. It doesn't legalize seizing accounts.

You get that under at-will employment, there's a UNIVERSE of unreasonable requests employers can make that will permit them to fire you directly, right?

What's your point here?

It still legalizes asking for accounts and there's still room for misinterpretation.

My point is that the misinterpretation is catastrophically riskier for the employer than the employee. This is as it should be, but isn't something the author of this article (or many commenters here) seem to recognize. Some commenters even hint at a belief that employers can directly access employee accounts on third party services, which is not an action accommodated by Illinois law.

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