Employee and applicant social media account privacy
ORS 659A.330
Employees
Bars employers from demanding access to workers' or applicants' personal social media accounts, forcing them to add the employer as a contact, or punishing them for refusing. Employers may still investigate specific misconduct reports and view public content.
- Where
- Oregon
- Citation
- ORS 659A.330
- Status
- In force
- Enforced by
- Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries (ORS 659A.820)
- People can sue
- Limited
- Penalties
- Unlawful employment practice remediable through a BOLI complaint.
- Applies to
- Employers other than law enforcement units, as to employees and applicants (ORS 659A.330(7))
Practices it requires
- Do not require or request credentials to, or the creation of, a personal social media account, or require advertising on it.ORS 659A.330(1)(a)-(b)
- Do not compel adding the employer as a contact or accessing the account in the employer's presence (except to share reported content in a permitted investigation).ORS 659A.330(1)(c)-(d), (4)(b)
- Do not discipline, discharge or refuse to hire for refusing these demands.ORS 659A.330(1)(e)-(f)
- Credentials inadvertently captured by network monitoring may not be used to access the personal account.ORS 659A.330(6)
Sources
Checked against these sources on 2026-09-25 by research agent (Claude), primary sources.
Unverified: ORS 659A.330 is not listed in ORS 659A.885(2); whether a direct civil action exists was not confirmed. | Original effective date (2013 c.204) not fetched.
Research reference, not legal advice.