'Eraser' law will let California kids scrub online past

Last year, California also passed a law to ban businesses and universities from asking their employees or students for their Facebook account passwords.

What on earth? Now this simply boggles my mind that there would NEED to be a law about this. That's like having to pass a law saying that my employer or university can't have my car keys. Nothing is stopping them standing next to my car and peering through the windows, but ask for my keys and I'll give them a polite but firm "NO".

As for the "erase" button. It is impossible and idiotic. Sites exist in other countries that regularly backup snap-shots of the internet, and these sites are searchable. U.S. law simply doesn't apply everywhere (something that the U.S. has been remarkably slow to realize), and this new law is so impractical as to make the judge issuing the order look like a lunatic standing on the beach and yelling, "Halt!!!" at the waves.

I agree, this law seems unenforceable in the international sphere of the internet. Regarding Facebook, that law is excellent. Yes it's quite common for companies in the US now asking for access to your account either in interviews to check you out, or in general, to make sure you don't slag off your company etc