Comments on: Password Privacy bill killed in House

By: Aaron Baker

Aaron Baker — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 07:23:00 +0000

Totally confused now

By: Counsel Dew

Counsel Dew — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 17:30:00 +0000

This will come back to haunt whichever party votes to allow employers or prospective employers to have access to social media sites…

By: jdale

jdale — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:57:00 +0000

“Nothing in this Act or any amendment made by this
Act shall be construed to limit or restrict the ability of the Federal
Communications Commission to adopt a rule or to amend an existing rule
to protect online privacy”I assume the logic is that the transparency rules, rules that require posting proposed regulations in advance, etc, could all be construed as “limiting” or “restricting” the ability of the FCC to make regulations about privacy. Not sure if a court would read it that way, but they might. And that would mean those rules would not apply when the FCC comes up with regulations regarding privacy.While I think employers should clearly be banned from requesting these passwords, I have to agree in this case that this is a very Rube-Goldberg approach to implementing a rule against it. It would make more sense to pass a law that either bans it directly (without expecting the FCC to figure out the details) or which simply gives the FCC the necessary authority rather than this weird addition that essentially says “whatever the other parts of the Act actually say, what it really meant was this.”

By: SpaceCaptainWarlock

SpaceCaptainWarlock — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:30:00 +0000

I hope to never be in such a desperate position that I’m willing to work for an employer that requires Facebook passwords as condition for employment.

The Republican representative says “[FCC reforms] would basically be shoved aside” but provides no insight as to how he came to that conclusion. What about this amendment allows the reforms in the bill to be “basically” shoved aside?