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New Mexico limits employer access to job applicants' social media accounts
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- May 15 2013
New Mexico recently became the latest state to prohibit employer access to social media accounts when Governor Susana Martinez signed S.B. 371 into
UPMC’s email messaging, and social media policies recently found to violate NLRA
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- USA
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- May 13 2013
An administrative law judge in Pittsburgh recently struck down an employer's email, e-messaging, and social media employment policies as
New Arkansas law protects employees' social media accounts
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- May 9 2013
Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe recently signed H.B. 1901 into law, prohibiting employers from asking employees or job applicants for social media
Federal court finds plaintiff states valid claims against ex-employer that hacked LinkedIn account, but fails to award damages
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- April 2 2013
The Eastern District of Pennsylvania recently ruled that an employee properly pled several state law causes of action against her previous employer
Posts on employer’s blog and employee’s Facebook account may make employer liable for retaliation
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- USA
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- March 18 2013
The U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee recently allowed the retaliation claims of two former employees at Coyote Ugly, a chain
Michigan bans employers from seeking social media passwords
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- USA
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- January 8 2013
Michigan governor Rick Snyder signed H.B. 5523 into law at the end of 2012, barring Michigan employers and colleges from asking current or prospective
Manager’s Facebook post did not establish invasion of privacyemotional distress claims
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- USA
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- November 15 2012
A Minnesota court recently dismissed the invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress claims of a former employee after a manager posted about the employee's termination on Facebook
Employer may be liable for accessing employee’s LinkedIn account
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- USA
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- October 16 2012
A Pennsylvania court recently found that a plaintiff who alleged her employer unlawfully took control of her LinkedIn account could not proceed on claims under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and the Lanham Act, although the court did find that the former employee could proceed on her state law claims for invasion of privacy, identity theft, conversion, and tortuous interference
California employers prohibited from asking for social media passwords
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- USA
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- October 8 2012
On September 27, 2012, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law Assembly Bill 1844, which prohibits employers from asking current or prospective employees for the log-in information for their personal social media accounts
NLRB invalidates several employers' social media policies
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- October 1 2012
As we recently reported, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and its administrative law judges have issued decisions striking down several workplace social media policies, creating uncertainty as to what social media activities employers may lawfully regulate or prohibit. In one such case, an administrative law judge for the NLRB held that an employer's policy prohibiting employees from making "disparaging or defamatory comments" about the employer on social media websites was overbroad and unlawful
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