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California Job Front: Social media privacy bills advance in Sacramento

Posted on April 30, 2012 by pogowasright.org

Darrell Smith reports that legislation prohibiting employers from asking job applicants’ social media logins is moving closer to becoming law in California:

The Social Media Privacy Act, sponsored by state Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, sailed through the Senate’s Education, and Labor and Industrial Relations committees.

The bill’s Assembly counterpart, authored by Silicon Valley Democrat Nora Campos, D-San Jose, passed unanimously through the Assembly Judiciary Committee last week.

Read more on Sacramento Bee.

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