Christopher Brook reports: A French data privacy watchdog is raising alarms about Google’s data collection practices and has given the Internet search giant a little over two weeks to explain the way it handles the information of its users. The Commission Nationale de l’Informatique (CNIL) sent a letter (.PDF) late last week to Google’s CEO Larry Page…
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Senator: Employers shouldn’t seek site passwords
Manuel Valdes of Associated Press reports: A Democratic senator from Connecticut is writing a bill that would stop the practice of employers asking job applicants for their Facebook or other social media passwords, he told The Associated Press on Thursday. U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal said that such a practice is an “unreasonable invasion of privacy…
Facebook strips ‘privacy’ from new ‘data use’ policy
Laurie Segall reports: A Facebook privacy policy revision intended to make the site’s methods more transparent is instead kicking up a fresh firestorm. Facebook posted a draft version of its revised terms on March 15 and gave the site’s users a one-week comment period to weigh in with questions and suggestions. The changes include many…
Maryland and Illinois Introduce Bills to Limit Employer Access to Employees’ Social Networking Accounts
Laura Brookover writes: Lawmakers in Maryland and Illinois have introduced bills that would prohibit employers from requiring job applicants or employees to grant access to their social networking accounts. The bills arose from reports that employers have impliedly or explicitly required access to social networking accounts as a condition of hiring or employment. A few bills have been proposed…