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

  • Proskauer Rose LLP
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  • USA
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  • 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

New Arkansas law protects employees' social media accounts

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
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  • USA
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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

Top 10 developmentsheadlines in trade secret, computer fraud, and non-compete law in 2012

  • Seyfarth Shaw LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 31 2012

As part of our annual tradition, here is our list of the top 10 developmentsheadlines in trade secret, computer fraud, and non-compete law for 2012

Keeping pace with legal requirements as mobile devices inundate offices

  • Poyner Spruill LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • November 13 2012

With 87 percent of employees confirming they use personal electronic devices for work, designing a workable “bring-your-own-device” program is probably overdue

Get ready for new California employment laws

  • Bryan Cave LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 16 2012

The California State Legislature had a busy year amending existing employment laws or adding new laws in a wide variety of areas, including wage and hour, anti-discrimination and social media

Federal courts address question of employer-employee ownership of business-related social media accounts

  • Fenwick & West LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 5 2012

The question of whether an employer is entitled to trade secret protection over social media accounts used for business purposes is unfolding in several well-publicized cases currently pending in federal courts throughout the country

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

  • Fisher & Phillips LLP
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  • USA
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  • 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

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
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  • 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

Access to social media accounts in the hiring process and employer ownership of trade secrets or confidential information contained in social media accounts: legislation on horizon?

  • Seyfarth Shaw LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 4 2012

On Monday March 26, 2012, Senators Richard Blumenthal (Connecticut) and Chuck Schumer (New York), called for federal agencies to determine whether requiring prospective hires to hand over social networking usernames and passwords violates federal law

Lessons in managing risks at the intersection of technology and the workplace

  • Jackson Lewis LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • June 28 2012

The abrupt resignation of Omaha Public School Superintendent Nancy Sebring before she ever officially took office is a reminder of two important lessons in human resources