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  Can your employer or potential employer require you to turn over your Facebook password? Unless you work in Maryland or Illinois, the answer is yes.         Mobile users click here to view the video.         And if you are applying for a job and refuse to give out your password, you probably won’t get hired. Lawyers.com Supervising Producer John McCarthy interviews attorney Mark Risk, an expert in employment law and the impact social …

As anyone who’s ever used Facebook knows, it’s not exactly a bastion of the private: Users voluntarily cough up unbelievable amounts of personal information about themselves on a daily basis. Everyone has read a post by a friend and thought, “I would never put that on Facebook!” But when it comes to what Facebook itself does with all that information, it’s a whole other ball game, and now the feds are watching. Facebook settled charges on August 10 brought by …

Twitter, Facebook and other forms of social media are transforming how cops and prosecutors do their jobs – and should make you think twice about your digital movements if you ever get in trouble with the law. Four out of five law enforcement officials said they use social media to help solve crimes, according to a new survey by information provider LexisNexis Risk Solutions (a Lawyers.com sister company). The survey found that federal, state and local-level agencies in both small …

Drama, chatter and gossiping between kids at school doesn’t stop when they leave the schoolyard, and it never has. In the Mesozoic era before the Internet, the conversation continued on party lines and during sleepovers. As technology developed, instant message and texting became the media of choice to keep the off-campus conversation going. But that was aimed at a targeted audience and rarely involved, for example, yelling about something for all to hear. Social media has changed everything, moving that …

Canadian police are searching for a lunatic who posted a video of himself on YouTube flying down a crowded highway at 187 miles per hour on a motorcycle, endangering himself and every other vehicle on the road. The exploit is only one of many in which people have incriminated themselves by putting footage of illegal activity on the Internet. Rider identified but not yet apprehended Three Chicago teens arrested after they taped themselves beating a man to death Home video …