Would Facebook give the rights to viewing my "private" account to colleges or businesses.?

[Michael Q]

I was told by a friend that colleges who were recruiting me, or businesses who wanted to hire me, can ask Facebook for the rights to view my account, even though it is private, and Facebook will give it to them.

But, I got on Facebook's website and it said that it would only give it to them for legal stuff. Which is true?

[o0.yeah]

Websites never have to give out ANY information unless there is a federal investigation going on and they subpoena/have a warrant for the records.

[Yo Gramma]

When you joined facebook, you agreed to allow them to use any information you post, in any way they wish
It's stated in the terms of use.

[Kim]

If you are trying to contact me on Facebook, please don’t. My account has been “disabled” for breaking Facebook’s Terms of Use. I was running a script that got them to keep me from accessing my account. I’m appealing. I’ll tell you what I was doing as soon as I talk with the developers who built what I was using and as soon as I talk with Facebook’s support (I sent an email in reply to the one below, but haven’t heard back yet).

I run this stuff so you don’t have to.

UPDATE: Rodney Rumford, who runs the FaceReviews Blog about Facebook says that all traces of me have been already removed from Facebook too.

UPDATE2: Tonight I learned about DataPortability.org and signed my name to that effort.

I am working with a company to move my social graph to other places and that isn’t allowable under Facebook’s terms of service. Here’s the email I received: