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PRIVACY: Maryland bans employers from asking for Facebook passwords.
PRIVACY: Maryland bans employers from asking for Facebook passwords.

MD. passes nations first bill to keep employers from demanding social media passwords from employees www.privateofficer.com
ANNAPOLIS, MD April 11 2012 (RNN) – The nation’s first bill to keep employers from demanding social media passwords from employees and prospective employees was passed in Maryland last week, a response from state legislators to increasing reports of the practice...

Demanding Social Media Passwords From Job Seekers Is Wrong
Today’s Slaw post: The issue of corporate or government employers asking for social media login ID’s and passwords for job seekers has reared its head again. See this CBC article entitled U...

Court requires fired social media employee to return usernames and passwords
Ardis Health, LLC v. Nankivell, 2011 WL 4965172 (S.D.N.Y. October 19, 2011) Defendant was hired to be plaintiffs’ “video and social media producer,” with responsibilities that included maintaining social media pages in connection with the online marketing of plaintiffs’ products...

Should social media passwords be a job requirement
This week's Daily Record column is entitled "Should social media passwords be a job requirement?" A pdf of the article can be found here and my past Daily Record articles can be accessed here...

Maryland Legislation Would Bar Employers from Requesting Employees or Applicants Social Media Account Passwords
This posting was written by Thomas A. Long, Editor of CCH Privacy Law in Marketing.Maryland employers would be prohibited from asking employees or applicants to hand over the passwords for their Facebook accounts or other personal social media accounts, if a bill that has passed both houses of the Maryland legislature (Senate Bill 433 and House Bill 964) is signed by the governor...

Department of Homeland Security, FBI, and Social Security Administration
allegedly denied social security insurance to disabled and elderly immigrants.

Social Security Loses Class Action, Will Pay $500 Million in Benefits
Social Security Loses Class Action, Will Pay $500 Million in Benefits

Social Security Class Action Launched
to Reinstate Wrongfully Terminated Payments

Marketing Spam
Member Source Media pays $200,000 civil penalty for deceptive online advertising.

Nielsen Media Challenged
TV ratings company to pay undisclosed settlement in antitrust lawsuit.

WA Dept. of Social and Health Services
Class action settlement reached will give $45,000 each to thousands of minority day-care providers.