Please enjoy this guest post from Travis Crabtree, my colleague in Houston whose practice focuses on internet law. Visit Travis’ blog at www.emedialaw.com
Democratic Texas State Representative Helen Giddings filed a bill prohibiting employers in Texas from asking for social media passwords from applicants and current employees. Texas joins a long list of states
Yesterday the Huffington Post reported an interesting story about how Maneesh Sethi used Craig’s List to employ a “slapper” to keep him from wasting time on Facebook when he should be working. Digging deeper, I found Sethi’s own blog post on his website Hackthesystem.com where he described how he first came upon the idea. Using
Desperately trying to retain its relevance in a world where unions are going by the wayside, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has taken up the issue of what employers can do about employee posts on the internet.
Under the National Labor Relations Act employees are permitted to engage in “concerted activity” which is to
Facebook privacy among employees has been discussed for a long time, but a couple of recent events have brought the issue to the forefront of public discussion. At the beginning of the month Forbes reported on a lawsuit moving forward in Minnesota against a school district that requires Facebook passwords of students. Then, last Friday,
“Private eyes, they’re watching you, they’re watching your every move . . .”
I don’t even particularly like Hall and Oates, but the song popped into my head as soon as I started reading Jennifer Preston’s article last week in the New York Times about a new investigative tool for employers. Social Intelligence is