As a user, you shouldn’t be forced to share your private information and communications just to get a job. And as the friend of a user, you shouldn’t have to worry that your private information or communications will be revealed to someone you don’t know and didn’t intend to share with just because that user is looking for a job.

—Erin Egan, Facebook’s chief privacy officer, who says that Facebook will fight employers and others who ask users for their passwords. Good on Facebook for standing behind their users on this.