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Re:Want to come to the US? Be prepared to hand over your pas... by riffic on Thursday February 09, 2017 @04:52AM (#13605773)
You would violate the terms of service for sharing your passwords with a third-party.

Facebook for example: https://www.facebook.com/terms Section 4, number 8:

"You will not share your password (or in the case of developers, your secret key), let anyone else access your account, or do anything else that might jeopardize the security of your account."

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Re:Want to come to the US? Be prepared to hand over your pas... by amelius on Thursday February 09, 2017 @05:23AM (#13605907)
This is useless, legally speaking, since the law overrides any ToS from any company.
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Re:Want to come to the US? Be prepared to hand over your pas... by pjc50 on Thursday February 09, 2017 @05:59AM (#13606046)
The request from the immigration officers isn't actually a legal obligation, it's just that they can make it a condition of entry.
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Re:Want to come to the US? Be prepared to hand over your pas... by ominous on Thursday February 09, 2017 @05:02AM (#13605821)
"do anything else that might jeopardize the security of your account"

Logging in using a common combinations of browser, OS, machine, keyboard, environment also jeopardizes the security of your account. Exploits, keyloggers, onlookers, etc.

Does violating the terms of service trigger anything, or is just something that Facebook can use against you, should it be needed?

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Re:Want to come to the US? Be prepared to hand over your pas... by Sjoerd on Thursday February 09, 2017 @05:04AM (#13605829)
It is currently unclear whether violating the terms of service is a crime: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/02/violating-terms-use-is...
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Re:Want to come to the US? Be prepared to hand over your pas... by fjert on Thursday February 09, 2017 @01:49PM (#13609646)
I'm confused how it is at all debatable that violating a company's arbitrary ToS would be a crime.
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