soaring. plus, employers asking job applicants for their facebook passwords, shocking, but likely legal. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com this is cnn breaking news. let s get right to the breaking news this hour in sanford, florida. just moments ago the chief of police announced he s temporarily stepping aside, a move over the handling of the trayvon martin shooting death. martin is the unarmed black teenager killed by a volunteer who has not been charged. update our viewers on the very latest. reporter: wolf, the city manager in sanford has long said he will not fire the police chief bill lee. he would wait until federal investigators looked into this case and looked into his department to determine whether to fire the police chief, but we are hearing the police chief will step down temporarily and scott cotter will step in as interim chief. we ll hear more about what the police chief had to say as he decided to step
sorts of things, customer names, street and e-mail addresses, birth dates and passwords, login information and online i.d.s. it says billing information may have been compromised and it s possible that the hacker also stole credit card information. what s concerning about this is that sony waited for, i believe, six days from when they knew something bad had happened to when they told us something bad had happened. they still don t really know what the hackers got. they should have wait fahd get a clear and full explanation. on the other hand if your credit card information was stolen you might want to cancel your credit card or get a new one or change your passwords or figure out ways of backing up your system. and having an extra six days to get going on that is advantageous. there s a dilemma that companies face when they re hacked. do you quickly tell everybody so they can take precautionary and defensive measures or do you
if people don t already have a public profile, some businesses are asking them for their login information so they can see just about everything. friends, pictures, videos, what they did over the weekend, so i asked college student vernon alford if he felt it was an invasion of his privacy. honestly it wouldn t really bother me is, basically i look at it as a way to network with future employers. it s just pictures of who i am. basically just trying to figure out who is he about? reporter: his profile is already public. other than some school performances and events, he says he doesn t have much to hide. i think that when certain users have a private setting it s kind of like, man, you know, what is he trying to hide? or what is he trying to conceal? reporter: albany city officials recently discussed implementing facebook as part of their screening process when hiring new employees. we cannot be arbitrary. we have to be fair but we also have to move along with the world of to