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Friend Request Rejected: Maryland Bans Employers from Asking Employees for their Social Media Passwords : Privacy Law Blog
Maryland became the first state to pass legislation ( House Bill 964 and Senate Bill 433 ) that prohibits employers from asking employees and job applicants for their social media passwords. The legislation also prohibits an employer from (a) taking, or threatening to take, disciplinary action for an employee’s refusal to disclose his or her password, or (b) failing to hire an applicant due to the applicant’s refusal to disclose his or her password. While generally protective of employees, there is an exception built into the legislation that allows employers to require an employee to disclose certain access information (e.g., user name and password) for “…accounts or services that provide access to the employer’s internal computer or information systems.”when-you-tweet-cia-listens
Microsoft worker who lost his job over Nokia Windows Phone tweets now at Google | WinRumors
An ex-Microsoft worker who was forced to resign after he tweeted early about Nokia’s Lumia 800 Windows Phone has started work at Google. Joe Marini’s departure hit the headlines in September after a series of tweets about Nokia’s Windows Phone device. Marini originally tweeted : “I just got a chance to try out one of the slickest looking # Nokia phones I have ever seen. Soon, you will too! # wp7 . ” The tweet received a considerable amount of attention and Marini rated the device on a scale of 1-10.
Insider trading: Red light for Greenlight | The Economist
David Einhorn, the boss of Greenlight Capital (pictured), a large American hedge fund, is usually the one to point out the errors in others’ ways. He has been a vocal critic of companies, such as Lehman Brothers, which he shorted before its collapse in September 2008. But yesterday Mr Einhorn was the one facing scrutiny. He and his firm were fined £7.2m ($11.3m) by Britain’s Financial Services Authority (FSA) for trading on inside information relating to an equity offering for Punch Taverns, the largest pub and bar operator in the United Kingdom. In June 2009 Mr Einhorn was told by a broker acting on behalf of Punch Taverns that the firm was going to issue new equity, which would probably drive down the value of its shares. Mr Einhorn then sold his 11.7m shares before the firm announced the offering publicly.
The Bar Standards Board (BSB) heard that Harris had also been tweeting using the name @GeekLawyer during the case. In one of the tweets, Harris wrote: “Left robes in hotel once. Judge permitted me to appear unwigged, he invited other barrister to appear likewise: p--- refused.” Mr Baggs said: “In addition, I note a post on ‘GeekLawyer’s blog’ entitled ‘busy’, made on February 7 2010 states: “Geeklawyer is not dead. But he is in a very large & complex case and so in unable to spare time to blog.
Barrister who Tweeted insults struck off - Telegraph
ACTA: The new threat to the net
Amazing! We smashed our 2 million target as we delivered to key decision-makers in Brussels this week -- let's get to 3 million before the crucial parliamentary debates Posted: 25 January 2012 Last week, 3 million of us beat back America's attack on our Internet! --- but there is an even bigger threat out there, and our global movement for freedom online is perfectly poised to kill it for good. ACTA - a global treaty - could allow corporations to censor the Internet.