I'm honestly a little disapointed in the ACLU on this issue. Facebook is doing a good thing taking it on, but the ACLU is bringing this up on behalf of Robert C

I'm honestly a little disapointed in the ACLU on this issue. Facebook is doing a good thing taking it on, but the ACLU is bringing this up on behalf of Robert Collins. In the Robert Collins case,(1) the employer (the MD Dept of Corrections) hoped Facebook would reveal "gang affiliations." Race based discrimination alarm bells should be ringing! The best interests of your client are to politely remind the MD DoC that Baltimore juries are especially sensitive to discrimination issues and tend to be very skeptical of enforcement/corrections management.(2) Collins should walk away with a blank check under current law. ACLU is rolling the dice on some new "right to privacy for things you publicly posted" instead. I think it's the wrong way and wrong time for them to argue for that. (1) http://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty/want-job-password-please http://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty/want-job-pas... (2) http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/sep/06/wire http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/sep/06/wire