Judge Demands Email and Facebook Passwords From Women In Sexual Harassment Case

An anonymous reader writes "Back in September, a U.S. judge ruled that a school district violated the First Amendment (freedom of speech) and Fourth Amendment (unreasonable search and seizure) rights of a 12-year-old student by forcing her to hand over her Facebook password to school officials who in turn used it to search for messages they deemed inappropriate. This month, another U.S. judge has ordered that women suing their employer for sexual harassment must hand over cell phones, passwords to their email accounts, blogs, as well as to Facebook and other social networks."

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What do you have to hide?

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I know, privacy as as a right, blah blah bla. Forget it. There is no longer a right to privacy, terrorism became sophisticated enough that simply is NOT going to happen, period.

And face it, the opposition probably already HAS the information, they are just trying to avoid the backlash that comes with admitting that.

But the real questions boils down what is being hidden; If there is wrong doing, it needs to be exposed. Privacy should no longer be an excuse when trying to deprive or take from someone else. You have nothing to hide? prove it. You want to keep your conversations private? Then I will assume your motivations are NOT honest.

I am wondering to myself how this is different from wikileaks? I mean its a big deal we make secret government communications public right (in the interest of truth)? What's the difference?