I read an interesting opinion about requiring employees to divulge passwords, which went something like this: any employee who will divulge the password to their personal account will also be likely give up their work password, so the only good reason to ask an employee for their password is to weed out those who are unsuitable for employment. -D On Fri 22/06/12 7:35 AM , PeterK [log in to unmask] sent: Online Privacy Laws Can Cause Discovery Woes Membership in social media apparently has its privileges. But could protecting employee passwords turn out to be a pricey proposition for employers when it comes to e-discovery? A new law was passed in Maryland preventing employers from requiring current and prospective employees to disclose passwords and user names to online social media and communications sites — a practice until now allowed in every state. http://bit.ly/NhdyxR [1]">http://bit.ly/NhdyxR Source: http://www.law.com/jsp/cc/PubArticleCC.jsp%3Fid%3D1339956911542%26amp%3BOnline_Privacy_Laws_Can_Cause_Discovery_Woes [2]">http://www.law.com/jsp/cc/PubArticleCC.jsp?id=1339956911542">http://bit.ly/NhdyxR+ Try the bitly.com sidebar to see who is talking about a page on the web: http://bitly.com/pages/sidebar [3]">http://bitly.com/pages/sidebar List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html [4]">http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html Contact [log in to unmask] [5] for assistance To unsubscribe from this list, click the below link. If not already present, place UNSUBSCRIBE RECMGMT-L or UNSUB RECMGMT-L in the body of the message. [log in to unmask] [6]?body=unsubscribe%20RECMGMT-L Links: ------ [1] http://bit.ly/NhdyxR [2] http://www.law.com/jsp/cc/PubArticleCC.jsp%3Fid%3D1339956911542%26amp%3BOnline_Privacy_Laws_Can_Cause_Discovery_Woes [3] http://bitly.com/pages/sidebar [4] http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html [5] mailto:[log in to unmask] [6] mailto:[log in to unmask] List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance To unsubscribe from this list, click the below link. If not already present, place UNSUBSCRIBE RECMGMT-L or UNSUB RECMGMT-L in the body of the message. mailto:[log in to unmask]