• Popdecay, Wednesday, October 3, 2012 1:16 PM

Calif. Governor Jerry Brown signed laws to protect consumer privacy for those using social media: Assembly Bill 1844 and Senate Bill 1349 prohibit universities and employers from requiring that applicants give up their email or social media account passwords. Then he turned around and vetoed privacy bills to protect due process rights, meaning the bill would have required law enforcement to get a search warrant before obtaining location-tracking information. A spokesperson for the Electronic Frontier Foundation said "police shouldn’t be able to get your sensitive location data -- information that can reveal your religion, health, hobbies, and politics -- on a whim," but it's not on a "whim" that law enforcement wants this information. 

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