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Evening Legal Briefs

[Jan 02, 2013, 7:53 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

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3. Re: Evening Legal Briefs Jan 2, 2013, 21:54 Sepharo
 
nin wrote on Jan 2, 2013, 21:20:
I thought the last line of the article was very telling:

None of the measures prohibit employers from reviewing what their employees or potential hires publicly post to social-media accounts.

So they can't ask for your password, but they (seemingly) can ask to review your page with you present?

Some of the states also had laws against forced "shoulder surfing". From what I've read it sounds like the Michigan law has a lot of holes in it for investigations and such but does effectively ban a blanket policy on access to personal info on the internet that has nothing to do with the job.

edit: Err upon reading what you actually quoted that's a little bit different... no law is going to be able to stop an employer from looking at publicly available info. But as I said there was another practice referred to as "shoulder surfing" where they would force you to login into your private account and show them around. 		 
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[I'm not trolling I'm just] tossing stuff like that in there only to get your panties all bunched up. -TrollinThundr
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