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California just passed legislation that will prevent employers from demanding the social media passwords of employees current and potential -- and, at the same time, prevent institutions of higher education from demanding the same of their students. Yesterday, Jerry Brown signed two bills into law. The first, AB-1844, prevents employers from asking their staff for their social media usernames or passwords (and, in another iteration, from logging into social media in their presence). The second, SB-1349, extends that protection to students at California's many private and public colleges and universities. As Brown put it in a Facebook post, "California pioneered the social media revolution. These laws protect Californians from unwarranted invasions of their social media accounts."
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post #2 of 28
That's like asking for someone's keys so you can look around their house...

Surprised this wasn't a law already
    
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surprised this wasn't common sense. but all that being said, it's not hard to google search your prospective new hire...
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We'll this is good, private lives are supposed to be that. private lives lol.

Even if I wouldnt be employed because of it, I wouldnt want to divulge that info willingly anyways.
    
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Why was this not already illegal?
     
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Why was this not already illegal?
Because America has yet to discover little acts of legislation called privacy acts. Even though every other civilized country has them for the most part.
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i can't wait for someone to trot out the "if you having nothing to hide, then you shouldn't worry" argument rolleyes.gif
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U.S.'s law has a while yet to discern what they feel about technology...its a painstakingly slow process
    
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Why was this not already illegal?
Because America has yet to discover little acts of legislation called privacy acts. Even though every other civilized country has them for the most part.
Actually, I think Cali is the first place to implement a law like this.
 
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Actually a while ago the US supreme court turned down legislation to make this illegal. So blame our own government for allowing employers to do this. I applaud CA for fixing it. Now we just need the rest of the country to follow suit.

EDIT: I was trying to find the original article and it looks like a ton of states are doing this. Illinois passed the same law Aug 1. Good!
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