Holding a manually chosen password can be a privacy violation because it's a small peek into the user's psyche. (I wouldn't say the employee "changeme", "insta

Holding a manually chosen password can be a privacy violation because it's a small peek into the user's psyche. (I wouldn't say the employee "changeme", "instagram" etc. passwords count, although the act of running a password cracking tool meant that he could have seen a more personal password.) Holding some randomly generated numbers that could be used to access a server is not.