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orin kerr is a law professor at george washington university, focusing on computer usage.anks for having me. host: is it legal for a potential employer to ask for your facebook password? guest: it's not clear. senator schumer has asked the justice department to decide whether it is legal. there are a couple of laws that may be in place. there have been a couple lawsuits involving similar scenarios and in one of them the employer was held liable for accessing the employee's myspace account. mostly it's on the theory that it is an unauthorized access to the employee's private account. that is akin to hacking into the employee's personal accounts. that's the idea. so there have been a couple lawsuits about this, but it seems to be pretty new practice that some employers are engaging in or prospective employers. a lot of this is arising in the context of application for employment where the employer is checking out what the person is about. want to know what information in order to investigate who the person is and what they have been approved. from what we can tell, what empl