Once you’ve handed over your passwords, your account will never be secure again. The can control your account, change the underlying info, anything they want to do.
It is absolutely unacceptable for them to require the ability to take control of your accounts. The google account also includes your gmail account. That means that the city will be able to read every e-mail message on your account and get the e-mail addresses of everyone you have communicated with.
Is that bad enough for you?
The principle of intrusions into an individual’s life for a variety of reasons has already been well established.
Now, human nature and bureaucracy combine to go even further.
Many people have supported various intrusions for their own reasons - illegal drug testing, DUI roadblocks.
Once they run out of the “bad” things to test for, guess what they go after next.
This is a logical culmination of the policies implemented over the past two decades.
And no, it’s not bad enough for me. I’m simply enjoying it.
As they used to say, if you don’t have anything to hide, what’re you scared of.
“It is absolutely unacceptable for them to require the ability to take control of your accounts.”
That is the illegal part. They are demanding property of yours in return for employment.