Bill banning employer Facebook snooping introduced

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Two members of Congress have introduced a bill that would ban the practice of requiring job applicants, employees or students to provide their social networking information. 

The Social Networking Online Protection Act, authored by Congressman Eliot Engel of New York and sponsored by Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky of Illinois, is in response to a growing number of reports of employers demanding their employees’ Facebook passwords as a condition of employment.

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