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Maryland Passes Bill Banning Employers from Demanding Facebook Information EPIC

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Herr Heckler Koch

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https://epic.org/2012/04/maryland-passes-bill-banning-e.html
EPIC said:
The Maryland legislature passed the first bill banning employers from asking employees or applicants for social networking passwords. The bill was introduced after Robert Collins, an employee at the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, was asked to turn over his Facebook password as part the process of being reinstated as a corrections officer. Recently, Senators Blumenthal and Schumer asked the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the practice of employers asking job applicants to surrender user names and passwords for social networking sites like Facebook.
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