Well here’s a refreshing breath of rationality: Two representatives, Eliot Engel (D-NY) and Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) introduced a bill to make it illegal for employers and educational facilities to ask for passwords to social networks.
I don’t know how widespread the practice is, as we have isolated reports, but this seems to be a relatively sane thing to make a law out of. I’m glad to see something that looks savvy like this being done, though I’m sure there’s at least some bandwagon-jumping here.
The good news is that some respect for privacy in America’s IT laws bodes well for the other fights, like CISPA. Yeah, I know we didn’t touch on that like we did SOPA, I’ll try to rectify it.
Steven Savage is a Geek 2.0 writer, speaker, blogger, and job coach. He blogs on careers at http://www.musehack.com/, nerd and geek culture at http://www.nerdcaliber.com/, and does a site of creative tools at http://www.seventhsanctum.com/. He can be reached at http://www.stevensavage.com/.
