Brown signs social-media passwords bill

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Jerry-Brown-signs-bill-on-social-media-passwords-3900109.php

Employers and institutions of higher education will be barred from demanding user names and passwords to social-media accounts of employees, job applicants and students under two bills that Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law Thursday.

California is the fourth state to enact such a ban this year. Congress defeated a similar measure. Those actions came after reports emerged that employers and university officials were demanding access to social media accounts.