UPDATE - Still Trending On Password Demands

It's been barely four days since I wrote about the developing trend of state legislatures proposing new laws that would prohibit employers in those states from demanding social media passwords from job applicants.    My take away on Monday was:  "I predict that more states – and perhaps Congress on the federal level – will continue the trend disfavoring any demand for passwords during the hiring process."    I'm not going to Vegas any time soon on my hunches, but it appears that this growing snowball has now rolled down Capitol Hill in Washington.

The press that this issue has garnered in the papers and online has reached the desk of United States Senator Richard Blumenthal (Democrat from Connecticut), who announced yesterday that he is now penning federal legislation that would bar employers from asking for social media passwords.    As quoted by Michelle Maltais in the L.A. Times, Senator Blumenthal stated that "[t]hese practices seem to be spreading, which is why