GS: What do you think about this new "trend" of job seekers who are being asked for their?

[Count Acumen]

Laws need to be made against it. Specifically that the employer shouldn't even be allowed to ask for online accounts because even asking will discriminate against those that refuses or if the person has no such social online account (which would no doubt be held against them also). If we allow such an invasion of privacy from any business it will trend towards the entire economy allowing it and if that happens we would have to change the very nature of the economy to prevent people from misusing personal information.
Really it's selfish on employers part to do this because it holds a much greater potential for a person's private information to be misused so the company can theoretically save some money that is out of proportion to what they have cost the employee in distress.