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November 18, 2008
MySpace in the Workplace -- Employees and Privacy?
Ronald J. Levine and Susan L. Swatski-Lebson in Legal Technology ask, Are Social Networking Sites Discoverable? This is another article demonstrating the risks and considerations in social networking sites. They conclude,
Although these sites provide users with a sense of intimacy and community, they also create a potentially permanent record of personal information that becomes a virtual information bonanza about a litigant's private life and state of mind. The converse thus becomes the moral for litigation counsel -- this new generational fount of potentially discoverable information should be high on the list of priorities when evaluating a new matter.
While employees need to be careful what they post, employers should take care in how they use the information they find, too.
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