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Mar 29, 2012

House Vetoes Facebook Privacy Bill For Employees

By Alicia Cruz

Members of the U.S. House of Representatives yanked a proposal, introduced by Congressman Ed Perlmutter (D-7th district of Colorado), that would have been an addition to the current Federal Communications Commission Process Reform Act of 2012, H.R. 3309.

 The amendment would have empowered the FCC in preventing employers from asking job applicants or employees for the user names and passwords to their social networking sites such as Facebook.  According to Techcrunch, only one House Republican voted in support of the changes. The final vote numbers were reported as 236 to 184.  Read More

Click to learn more on H.R. 3309 -- The Federal Communications Commission Process Reform Act of 2012

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