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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

Workplace confidentiality: more about insisting on privacy!

  • Stewart McKelvey
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • May 8 2013

The common law privacy right, or the tort of intrusion upon seclusion, arrived in Canada with Jones v. Tsige. That case arose when a bank employee

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

Broad social media privacy bill reaches New Jersey governor’s desk

  • Ogletree Deakins
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 5 2013

On March 21, 2013, a broadly-worded social media privacy bill (A2878) received final legislative approval, and now awaits action by Governor Chris

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

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 privacy makes its way to Capitol Hill

  • Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 26 2013

As noted in a recent blog and in the news report mentioned above, 21 states have social media privacy legislation pending. But, social media privacy

Securities employees' social media access cannot be touched by their California employers

  • Fox Rothschild LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 15 2013

On January 1, 2013, California joined Maryland and Illinois in restricting securities employers' access to their employees' and job applicants'

Ombudsmen decisions - The Hobbit and Ministers' personal interests

  • Russell McVeagh
  • -
  • New Zealand
  • -
  • February 8 2013

In the past week the Ombudsmen released two opinions concerning high-profile requests under the Official Information Act. The two situations differ