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Navigating the Changing Technological LandscapeIn City of Ontario v. Quon, the U.S. Supreme Court held that a government employer’s search of an employee’s communications on an employer-issued pager was reasonable under the circumstances and, therefore, did not violate the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution. The Court’s narrowly tailored decision underscores that cases in the area of employee privacy will continue to be highly fact-sensitive.
Crowdsourcing the LawThe Internet’s completely over, the musician once-again known as Prince declared this summer. If so, I am at a loss to explain the ongoing emergence of innovative Web sites such as Spindle Law, a new site that is reconfiguring the traditional legal treatise to make it better fit a "Web 2.0" world.
The Brave New World Of e-Workplace Privacy PoliciesPart One of this article, last month, examined the liability involved with social media and e-mail use. Part Two discusses implementing compliant and defensible workplace policies.
Lessons from Twitter’s Settlement with the FTCThe announcement that social-networking phenomenon Twitter has agreed to settle FTC charges that it had engaged in inadequate privacy and information security practices illustrates some simple mistakes that social media and other online companies can make. If the consent decree is approved, Twitter will have to live with the oversight that accompanies an FTC consent decree for 20 years (or more than four times the length of time that the company has existed).
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