Social Media, Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)

BYOD to E-Discovery: What Happens When Employees “Scan” and Send Chats of Company Documents Using Their Phones?

Foley & Lardner LLP on 6/21/2023

We recently cautioned employers about their confidential information showing up in selfies posted online, but social media is not the only reason employees are taking photos at work. Picture this: An employee quickly...more

New FAR Clause Implements TikTok Ban for Federal Contractors

Venable LLP on 6/20/2023

The federal government's most recent TikTok ban is both simple and complex. The prohibition bans federal contractors from using or even installing the TikTok app on covered information technology (IT) devices....more

3 Challenges Corporate Legal Teams Face With BYOD

Reveal on 6/29/2020

Today’s eDiscovery Blues comic highlights several challenges In-House legal teams might face when working with data in the face of litigation, starting with the sinking feeling that comes when you ask yourself, “Is the I.T....more

Digital Workplace Issues

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP on 4/20/2020

Our increasingly connected world presents tremendous opportunities for employers as well as considerable confusion and risk. Should you Google a job applicant? Allowing employees to use their own mobile devices for work...more

Don’t Let Technology Run Away With Your Customer Information

Payne & Fears on 7/11/2018

For many companies, customer information ranks among its most important assets. Yet these days, employees often keep this sensitive customer information in electronic locations that are not readily accessible to or controlled...more

CEO Zuckerberg: Facebook User Settings Protect Individual Data – Congress Is Not So Sure

White and Williams LLP on 4/16/2018

After ten hours of Congressional testimony, one thing is clear – there is growing bipartisan concern over data privacy and data protection in the US. In the wake of so many recent data breaches, and now the data harvesting...more

Pokémon Go Back to Work!

Littler on 7/29/2016

Pokémon Go has taken the United States and the rest of the world by storm, with an estimated 75 million downloads in the first three weeks since its release. For the uninitiated, Pokémon Go is an augmented reality game where...more

eWorkplace Policies Restricting Employees’ Acceptable Use of Technology, Social Media & The Cloud

Fenwick & West LLP on 9/4/2015

I. OVERVIEW – THE MODERN LANDSCAPE - A. Physical Conduct PLUS Digital Activity - Traditional concerns for employers have included: conduct leading to liability to third-parties; “frolic and detour” or other...more

HR Has More Important Things To Do

Zelle LLP on 7/24/2015

On Tuesday, Salon published an article titled “5 Ways Corporate HR Departments Monitor Your Movements – Even When You’re Not Working.” Because we’re always interested in the subject of employee monitoring, we eagerly clicked...more

[Event] Massachusetts Employment Law Summit - May 13, Boston, MA

Mintz - Employment, Labor & Benefits... on 4/10/2015

Employers and their HR departments are faced with a host of new issues and challenges. When you’re not navigating new state, federal, and local laws and making sure systems are in place to comply with them, you’re busy...more

When Tech Innovation Outpaces the Law, A Minefield Of Workplace Issues in Social Media

JD Supra Perspectives on 4/29/2014

Part of JD Supra's series on innovation and the law. The NLRB has famously struck down employers’ social media policies based on a law that was adopted during the New Deal and has not been amended since....more

Employer To Do List for the New Year

Snell & Wilmer on 2/14/2014

As the new year is getting under way, employers should consider placing these developing issues at the top of their to do list: Social Media Policies - Employers should consider reviewing and updating social...more

Social Media: Protecting Trade Secrets and Proprietary Information

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 1/22/2014

The ability of employees to steal trade secrets, reveal customer lists, and expose proprietary business information with the press of a button is frightening. In over 85 percent of trade-secret cases, the alleged...more

Poetic Justice - 2013 Wrap Up (Part 1 of 2)

Cozen O'Connor on 12/23/2013

This is the time of year to anxiously look forward to all that is anticipated to come in 2014. But it is also the time to look back at all that has happened in 2013. Rather than simply give you links to all of the stimulating...more

Here's What's Missing from Your Company's Social Media Policy

JD Supra Perspectives on 11/19/2013

For a legal perspective, we asked attorneys writing on JD Supra to tell us what, in their experience, they most often found to be missing from workplace social media policies. We knew that a roundtable of responses would make...more

Bring Your Own Device Programs and Health Care: Too Risky to Work? - Scripts - News for the Health Care Community

Poyner Spruill LLP on 7/10/2013

Recent workplace surveys report that as many as 87% of employees use personal electronic devices for work, raising compliance, data loss, and security risks for their employers. As a result, designing a workable...more

Broad Social Media Privacy Bill Reaches New Jersey Governor’s Desk

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 4/5/2013

On March 21, 2013, a broadly-worded social media privacy bill (A2878) received final legislative approval, and now awaits action by Governor Chris Christie. As discussed in several prior issues, this bill would bar an...more

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