Action: Naomi Campbell.  Action: Naomi Campbell. Photo: AFP
Bosses would be banned from demanding access to job seekers'
Facebook pages and other social media accounts under potential
changes to national privacy laws.  The use of social media
accounts to assess candidates for work, education and other
opportunities was ''an area of growing concern'', the Australian
Law Reform Commission said in an issues paper released on
Tuesday. The commission is considering whether new laws are
needed to allow people to sue for serious invasions of privacy,
following a request by the former Gillard government in June.
It said the use of remotely-piloted aircraft, or drones, GPS
tracking and the aggregation of data such as web browsing
histories also pointed to the potential need for a right to sue
for invasion of privacy or to amend existing laws which offered
protection in some areas.  It is illegal to ask job seekers for
social media passwords in 13 US states, including California and
New Jersey, and other states are f