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  • Maryland Legislature to Employers: Hands Off Facebook Passwords

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    (También en Español) News of Note: Maryland Legislature to Employers: Hands Off Facebook Passwords The state of Maryland just passed the first bill in the nation that bans employers from asking for the social media passwords of job applicants and employees. Maryland should be congratulated for not only standing up for online privacy, but privacy…

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  • Facebook privacy protection law shot down by Congress

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    (También en Español) News of Note: Facebook privacy protection law shot down by Congress The US House of Representatives has shot down proposals which would have prevented businesses from collecting Facebook log on credentials as part of their employee vetting procedures. The law had been proposed by Colorado representative Daniel Perlmutter. Perimutter suggested that the…

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  • UK Surveillance: New powers to record every phone call and email

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    (También en Español) News of Note: New powers to record every phone call and email makes surveillance ’60m times worse’ The proposals, to be unveiled in the Queen’s Speech, will see a huge expansion in the amount of data communication providers are required to keep for at least a year. It will allow the police…

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  • Employers ask job seekers for Facebook passwords

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    (También en Español) News of Note: Employers ask job seekers for Facebook passwords In their efforts to vet applicants, 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. “It’s akin to requiring someone’s house…

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