California Employers Can't Ask For Your Facebook Password

J053 sends word that California has passed legislation making it illegal for both colleges and employers to request social media account access from students, employees, and prospective hires. "Assemblymember Nora Campos, who authored the bill, called AB 1844 a 'preemptive measure' that will offer guidelines to the accessibility of private information behind what she calls the 'social media wall.' ... According to Campos' office, more than 100 cases currently before the National Labor Relations Board involve employer workplace policies around social media. Facebook has also said it has experienced an increase in reports of employers seeking to gain 'inappropriate access' to people's Facebook profiles or private information."

Comments

Re:Finally, a law recognizing privacy

[Anonymous Coward]

You wrote your password down?

Re:Finally, a law recognizing privacy

[N0Man74]

You can have my password when you pry it from my cold, dead hand.

And that's the problem with biometric authentication.

Re:I can't even believe it has to be clarified

[Rob the Bold]

what kind of idiot accept it?

The kind that desperately needs or needs to keep a crappy job in a crappier economy in an even crappier place he can't leave since the housing market went to crap. Or as we prefer to say: "the perfect employee".

Re:Finally, a law recognizing privacy

[iluvcapra]

The SHA1 of that is 3daf4cf98356e6438aaa38ccf38a77027a69db05 for you kids at home updating your rainbow tables.

Re:Finally, a law recognizing privacy

[eugene ts wong]

He probably did, or maybe he tattooed them onto his knuckles, or maybe he's talking about some kind of sign language.

It's hard to visualize without a car analogy.