By: iPadfanzz staff on December 31, 2012
A new Michigan House Bill has been enacted that prevents schools and employers from requesting login information to their personal social media accounts.
House Bill 5523, signed by Governor Rick Snyder and introduced by state Rep. Aric Nesbitt, "prohibit[s] employers and educational institutions from requiring certain individuals to grant access to, allow observation of, or disclose information that allows access to or observation of personal internet accounts."
It means that an institution can’t request for your username or passwords for sites like Facebook and Twitter. The bill is known as the "internet privacy protection act."
Before Michigan, Delaware too has banned public and private schools from requiring students' social media account information. Similarly, California has also banned companies from asking its workers to surrender their social media account passwords.
