Category Archives: Social Media Law

Social Media Policy Must Have: when are they on the clock?

If your company has employees managing its social media you better have a policy that makes it clear when they are “on the clock” and “off the clock” or you could end up in trouble for violating the Fair Labor Standards Act. Consider this scenario: Your company has a non-exempt employee managing the company LinkedIn, Facebook, …

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Your business needs a social media policy and this is why.

It is foolish to not have one. Having a social media policy is like having a Will for your businesses’ branding and marketing efforts and the cost of getting that policy will likely be less than the bill for the first day in litigation if you do not! Social media is the next big thing …

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Are LinkedIn Contacts Trade Secrets?

A judge “across the pond” ruled that an employee’s LinkedIn contacts were, in essence, trade secrets of his former employer where those contacts were created during the term of employment and mimicked the employer’s confidential and proprietary business contacts. This raises quite a few legal issues for employers and employees. In fact, I wrote a …

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LinkedIn: think before you sync!

Right now LinkedIn is the darling of the business world and rightfully so. It is the professional’s social network that, I believe, virtually everyone should be taking advantage of — lawyers and clients alike — though not with reckless abandon. One of the nifty features about it is that when you sign up it gives …

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Ex Wife Pretending to Be 17 Yr Old on Facebook Gets Hubby Arrested by FBI

In a story available HERE, the Smoking Gun reports that an Angela Voelkert, the ex wife of David Voelkert, got her former husband busted by the FBI by setting up a fake Facebook account and pretending to be the 17 year old “comely teenage girl” pictured at the right (pic taken directly from Smoking Gun):  …

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Facebooking at Work Does Not Violate Computer Fraud and Abuse Act

One court recently found that an employee who wasted work time by using the Internet excessively, including playing on Facebook, did not violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act by her less than industrious ways. The case is Lee v. PMSI, Inc., 2011 WL 1742028 (M.D. Fla. May 6, 2011) and the facts are pretty …

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