Status Updates - June 11th, 2014

The CIA has entered the realm of social media, setting up a Twitter presence and a Facebook account. There one can find, among other things, reflections on intelligence history and fun facts from the CIA World Factbook. On May 23, Louisiana became the latest state to enact a law prohibiting employers and public and private educational institutions from requiring applicants, employees, and students to provide access to their personal online accounts. A man convicted of first-degree murder in Macomb County, Mich., on June 2, is asserting that Facebook comments by two jurors prevented him from receiving a fair trial. The jury...