Students, workers ordered to surrender Facebook passwords | The Raw Story: Facebook passwords
By Stephen C. Webster
Tuesday, March 6, 2012 17:58 EST
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Topics: Bradley Shear ♦ facebook ♦ University of North Carolina
Student athletes with the University of North Carolina, along with corrections officers in Maryland, have been subjected to an odd new policy that seems to be spreading to various employers throughout the country: social media monitoring that watches accounts from the inside.
Speaking to MSNBC’s Bob Sullivan, attorney Bradley Shear condemned the practice, which is increasingly being outsourced to companies that generate reports on individuals whose social media accounts they’re asked to monitor. Companies like UDiligence and Varsity Monitor offer “threat level” monitoring services for colleges, saying that they help protect athletes’ “personal brand,” along with the leagues.
“I can’t believe some people think it’s OK to do this,” he reportedly said. “Maybe it’s OK if you live in a totalitarian regime, but we still have a Constitution to protect us.”
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