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Lawyers and Social Media: Monitoring Off-Duty Conduct on the Internet: Facebook, Blogs and Social Networking Media
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From ALI ABA: Blogging, twittering, and use of other social networking media, such as Facebook, Flickr, MySpace, etc., are all becoming more popular each day, as is posting videos on YouTube, and otherwise posting information and images on the Internet. As such, employers are increasingly becoming interested in monitoring employees' off-duty Internet activity. But what are the risks and rationales involved of doing so? More...
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Permalink Reply by Daniel Leuck on
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That is a very interesting point. In today's world everything is recorded and nothing is ephemeral. This is bound to have a profound impact on our society. I'm glad you can't google all the idiotic conversations I had with my friends in high school :-)
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Permalink Reply by David Heerwald Leonard on
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This growing focus by the corporate HR legal community on social networking, as evidenced by this recent ALI-ABA ("American Bar Association") seminar, may result in companies modifying their current e-mail user policy. The modification may either be a total ban or a notice to all employees that there is "no expectation of privacy" in the use of social media applications on company laptops, PDAs or other IT equipment whether during work hours or not and the information will be considered company property and subject to monitoring and disciplinary action. This is the typical policy now applying to corporate e-mail.
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