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>It's against Facebook's Terms of Service. //

That would be my initial objection too. There's no real point in going beyond that. If the FB ToS have any legal weight then it would be most likely unlawful for me to share my FB login details with anyone.

An employer who attempted to do that and then sacked you would be performing constructive dismissal and probably be in breach of the [letter of the] Computer Misuse Act for attempting to gain access to a computer system without proper authorisation.

A company that followed through and consulted your FB would then be holding private information on your friends and there are all sorts of regulations that they're supposed to comply with then. Presumably they'd also be in breach of the European Convention of Human Rights @ Art.8 (at least).

TBH it sound quite fun. One could create a FB profile as a honey-trap - access would provide the evidence for a willing barrister to take a large company to the cleaners ... or that's how it seems.

IANAL needless to say.



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