The media attention and backlash over Bozeman, Montana requiring job applicants to provide their login passwords to social networking sites has resulted in the city rescinding its policy. The Montana News Station reports: A change in Bozmean’s city hiring policy — two days and one worldwide reaction after we broke the story, Bozeman will no…
Category: Govt
Mass. legislator: Revisit data security law
After months of outspoken complaints from business leaders who said Massachusetts data security laws were next to impossible to follow, one lawmaker wants to make compliance easier for the smallest and largest of businesses. A bill sponsored by Sen. Michael Morrissey, D-Quincy, would rewrite the law passed in 2007, essentially creating separate paths to compliance…
Ron Paul’s Campaign for Liberty sues TSA
The American Civil Liberties Union may have just earned itself a few more Republican admirers. Announcing a lawsuit against the Transportation Security Administration for the “illegal” detention of the Campaign for Liberty’s treasurer in April at a St. Louis airport, the ACLU damned what it called a “troubling pattern” of aggressive invasions of privacy by…
Would you trade your online passwords for a chance at a job?
I’ve long since given up trying to understand things like who thought up Pet Rocks or why people eat sweetbreads. I’m pretty sure, though, something I read today will have me scratching my head for a long time to come. ReadWriteWeb is reporting that applicants for jobs with the City of Bozeman, Montana, are expected…