What Employers Need to Know About California’s New Social Media Law

On September 27, 2012, California Governor Jerry Brown signed two bills, AB 1844 and SB 1349, into law, making California the third state in the country – Maryland and Illinois are the others – to regulate employers’ ability to demand access to employees’ or prospective hires’ personal social media accounts. Appropriately enough, Governor Brown made the announcement via five major social media networks: Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn and MySpace. Brown tweeted, “California pioneered the social media revolution. These laws protect Californians from unwarranted invasions of their social media accounts.”

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