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New Arkansas law protects employees' social media accounts

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • 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

Protecting privacy or enabling fraud? Employee social media password protection laws may clash with FINRA rules

  • Proskauer Rose LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 8 2013

As a growing number of states pass legislation which will protect individuals' social media accounts from employer scrutiny, they have encountered a

Federal court finds plaintiff states valid claims against ex-employer that hacked LinkedIn account, but fails to award damages

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • 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

New Jersey poised to enact the most aggressive social media password protection law to date, adding to a patchwork of conflicting laws across the U.S.

  • Littler Mendelson
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 1 2013

New Jersey is expected to shortly join California, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, and Utah in prohibiting employers from seeking employee or applicant

Stored Communications Act prevents email service providers from complying with subpoenas for content of emails

  • Arnold & Porter LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 29 2013

A recent Northern District of California decision has restricted the right of litigants to obtain certain information from third-party email service

Utah passes Internet Employment Privacy Act

  • Stoel Rives LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 18 2013

You have probably seen news accounts of employers requesting or requiring employees or applicants to disclose their usernames or passwords for their

Customer lists by another name social media and trade secrets - part 1

  • Fisher & Phillips LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 4 2013

Employers are well aware of the various implications that the social media explosion has on the workplace. The various issues created by Facebook

Social media firing of the week. (final score: God 10 - waitress 0)

  • Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 1 2013

The Internet is burning up this morning with the story of an Applebee's waitress who was fired for posting on Reddit, a social news and entertainment

Michigan passes Internet Privacy Protection Act, joins the ranks of states prohibiting employers from demanding access to Facebook accounts

  • Dykema Gossett PLLC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 23 2013

Last summer there was a flurry of activity in state legislatures across the United States following news reports about employers requiring

New California social media privacy law goes into effect

  • Loeb & Loeb LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 8 2013

Employers in California may no longer ask or require employees or applicants to provide their log-in credentials for social media sites such as Facebook