Say you're at a job interview. You're chatting with an HR rep, and all's going well when your interviewer asks you for ... your Facebook password.

Assuming you've misheard, you ask, "My Facebook username?"

Nono, your interviewer replies, breezily. Your password. Your Facebook password.

Yes. Apparently, for the 95 percent of employers who use social media sites to glean information about job candidates, the intelligence available for public perusal is no longer enough. Prospective employers now want to see inside your profiles. They want to see into your very soul.

Take the case of Robert Collins, the Maryland man who was forced to reveal his Facebook password during an interview with the state's Department of Corrections -- and who, as Alexis Madrigal reported, has the ACLU arguing on his behalf. Or take the tale of Justin Bassett, a New York statistician who ended a job interview after he was asked to provide his Facebook password during its proceedings. These cases, the AP notes, aren't mere anomalies. These are not rogue or clueless HR reps. "In their efforts to vet applicants," reporters Manuel Valdes and Shannon McFarland put it, "some companies and government agencies are going beyond merely glancing at a person's social networking profiles and instead asking to log in as the user to have a look around."