Tennessee has joined the growing number of states that prohibits employers, including government entities, from requesting or requiring access to the private social networking or online accounts of employees and job applicants. The Employee Online Privacy Act of 2014, signed by Governor Bill Haslam on April 29, 2014, will take effect January 1, 2015, but the new law will not apply to a contract entered into prior to that date that permits an employer action prohibited by the Act unless or until the contract is renewed on or after that date.
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