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The Maryland General Assembly has passed a bill to ban employers from asking any employee or job applicant to provide a username, password or other account information in order to gain access to their social networking website. According to a report by MSNBC, more and more government agencies and colleges are doing just that. About 75 percent of scholarship providers are deciding recipients based on the candidates' social networking pages. They look for references to underage drinking and illegal...