Proposed Social Media Legislation On California Governor’s Desk

On September 12, 2012, California Assembly Bill 1844 was enrolled and presented to Governor Brown. This bill is the counterpart to the Social Media Privacy Act (SB 1349), which was approved by the California State Senate in August 2012. AB 1844 is the work of Assemblywoman Nora Campos (D-San Jose), and seeks to prohibit employers from requiring employees to divulge their social media passwords during either the course of their employment or the hiring process. If Governor Brown signs AB 1844 into law, this would make California only the third state in the nation, after Maryland and Illinois, to limit an employer’s ability to request an employee’s social media passwords. We previously wrote about the new social media laws in Maryland and Illinois.

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