You apply for some jobs you will get a thorough background check ~ you will have agreed to that at the time you submitted the application. Otherwise you simply will not get the jobs ~ NOT EVER ~ not even with some other country.
He's right.
I can easily see why the Department of Corrections would want to see what employees or job applicants are putting on Facebook. That's legitimate.
Same for any federal job requiring a security clearance, or most state and local police work.
I don't have a problem with a university or any other employer requiring EMPLOYEES to disclose their off-duty activities. It seems like a bad idea to me, and for tenured professors, it would be a violation of academic freedom to discharge someone based on most things they might put on Facebook, but if you want to work for someone you need to follow their rules unless they're clearly unconstitutional.
This isn't. Employers have the right to make stupid rules, and I have the right to choose not to work for them.
But students? What possible legitimate purpose could there be for forcing students to disclose Facebook passwords at a public university? There are longstanding precedents in case law which may apply here to student free speech rights.
Private schools are a whole different ballgame. I know of private Christian schools which monitor Facebook and will discipline students for grossly offensive things posted there. I will defend their right to do so — and theoretically, I suppose Harvard or Yale could use their private status to do the same.
Bottom line: If you don't want the whole wide world to know what you say, don't post it on the world wide web.