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Congress and the states consider legislation on employer access to social media accounts

Venable LLP
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USA
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August 3 2012

Lawmakers in the Senate and House of Representatives have introduced legislation (S. 3074, H.R. 5684) that would amend the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act to make it a federal crime, punishable by fines, for employers to knowingly and intentionally “compel or coerce” a person to authorize access (such as by providing a password) to a computer that is not the employer’s computer, for hiring, promotion or firing purposes, and thereby to obtain information from the computer

FTC and Spokeo settle Fair Credit Reporting Act allegations

Venable LLP
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USA
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August 3 2012

The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) settled allegations against consumer data provider Spokeo in what the agency described as its first case on the sale of Internet and social media data in the employment screening context

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Workarea - Employment & Labor
Firm Name - Venable LLP
Author - Tara Sugiyama Potashnik

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