Social Media

Nevada joins Arkansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Vermont and Washington, which also adopted social media privacy laws this year, and California, Illinois, Maryland, and Michigan, which did so in 2012.

Nevada has become the latest state to enact legislation restricting an employer’s access to employee and prospective employee personal social media accounts. The new law Assembly Bill No. 181 prohibits Nevada employers from conditioning employment on disclosure of an applicant’s or employee’s personal social media account information, including user names and passwords. The legislation takes effect on October 1, 2013.