Privacy Rights in the Age of Social Media: Facebook Passwords and Legal Implications

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Social media in modern society serves a wide array of functions in daily life.Social networking sites such as Facebook are powerful tools that can reveal information and act as a means of communication that is unprecedented in the digital age.However, it is easy to see how these sites can be misused.Particularly, employers are eager to obtain information located on Facebook in order to discern the true identity of their employees or potential employees.Facebook is a social media site that is primarily a means of communication, allowing individuals to create personal profiles, and navigate the profiles of other users who grant them access to some or all of their uploaded information. 1Facebook, which now has over one billion users 2 , may contain intimate details of a user's self-identity.These profiles can include information concerning anything from a user's relationship status and political affiliations to photos and status updates from where the user was last Friday evening.A recent

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