Right to Privacy - Social Networks

Prospective employers would be prohibited from asking job applicants to provide access information (e.g., user name, password) for social media outlets such as Facebook if legislation pending in the Illinois General Assembly becomes law. Maryland has already enacted a law which prohibits that practice, and bills now pending in Springfield would amend the Right to Privacy in the Workplace Act to ban requests for access information to social media. (HB3782, HB 5713).