More Comment on TN Social Media Cyber-bully Law
Recently I mentioned this law enacted in Tennessee aimed at preventing cyber-bullying by creating a criminal statute that attempts to curb this activity. However, many think the law is overly broad....
View ArticlePassword Please? New Bill Says “No!”
A few weeks ago, Facebook publicized its findings that employers were increasingly requiring potential and current job holders to hand over their passwords to their Facebook and other social networking...
View ArticleState Bars Give Daily-Deal Websites the Greenlight
Earlier this year, I pointed out that the Indiana State Bar Association had frowned on the Groupon-Like websites for lawyers. But now North Carolina, South Carolina and New York Bar Associations have...
View ArticleMD Social Media Law: Employees Have Duties Too
Here is a good summary of the recently enacted employer social media restriction law. One thing I hadn’t seen in other discussion of the legislation is this section pertaining to employees: An employee...
View ArticleCA Following MD with Employer Password Ban
California hates to be second in anything but it will be lucky to be the next state to enact legislation prohibiting employers from forcing employees or prospective employees to give up user name and...
View ArticleAlabama Is an Outlier on Groupon
I recently posted about how every state bar association that had examined the ethical issues relating to attorney use of Groupon had given it’s members the greenlight. But now comes Alabama and they...
View ArticleCA Next Up on Facebook Password Prohibition
Its in Jerry Brown’s hands now whether California will become the third state after Maryland and Illinois to prohibit employers from forcing employees or prospective employees from turning over their...
View ArticleCA Passes Tough Social Media Privacy Bills
I have been tracking these developments during this year and now Jerry Brown has signed into law two bills that prevent employers from demanding applicants share their social media log-in information...
View ArticleSEC Gives Green Light to Social Media
To lawyers and others who hope social media will go away, here is more evidence to the contrary. The SEC has now said that companies can use Twitter, Facebook and the like to disclose possibly...
View ArticleConsumers Lose Out In CA Re: Privacy
The Right to Know Law proposed by Assemblywoman Lowenthal was shot down by big time business interests lead by the California Chamber of Commerce as well as tech companies, insurers and many others....
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