Perspective
Apr. 19, 2013
California first to declare comprehensive social media privacy laws, but are they enough?
A closer look at the statutes reveals employers can still access social media information, and a weak remedial scheme leaves the aftermath of a violation uncertain. By Roxanne Moin
In January, more than a decade after the advent of social media (two if you count blogging), new laws on social media privacy laws aimed at both employers and postsecondary academic institutions went into effect in California. While a few other states - including Maryland, Delaware and Illinois - passed more piecemeal legislation months earlier, some have hailed California as the first state to pass comprehensive social media privacy laws. ...
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