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Your Facebook user name and password is exactly like your copy of a key that lets you into their house. Your having picked the character strings used doesn't m

Your Facebook user name and password is exactly like your copy of a key that lets you into their house. Your having picked the character strings used doesn't matter. You are entering their system when you use that key. Them letting you put a bit of your furniture in their house (i.e. content you own) doesn't mean the house itself is yours. Nor does it mean that your permission to enter their system necessarily transfers to other people even given that you happen to give those other people a copy of the key.

mikeash 15y ago
It's probably not productive to use poor analogies here. Accessing a computer system without authorization from the owner of that system is a crime. Facebook doesn't give authorization for employers to access their employee's accounts on their system, and explicitly forbids their users from transferring their own authorization to others. As far as I can see, there is simply no way to construe an employer's access as authorized by the owner of the system i.e. Facebook.