Does your employer own your social network?
Monday, July 16, 2007



I found the following article to be intriguing and potentially startling: Your boss could own your Facebook profile. With the exploding growth of professional networking sites like LinkedIn I can't imagine this is the last time we will hear about this issue.

LinkedIn, MySpace, FaceBook and Blogs are topics that are no stranger to the law right now. The court is making ground breaking (Okay I like the drama of "ground breaking" it might be more accurately be "the first time these issues have been addressed in court") rulings that will be as critical as any civil laws we have. For the first time the courts are stepping in or out on how much of our cyberspace we own. For example we do have privacy rights for our postings on MySpace, FaceBook, etc (even if our employers own them according the article above). http://kevin.lexblog.com/blog-policies-and-ethics/.

Everyone from celebs to local political figures http://kevin.lexblog.com/2007/07/blogs-in-the-news/police-chief-sue... are suing over libel and slander. It is only a matter of time (or maybe just more research from me) before this becomes a corporate issue.

Any thoughts/advice on how to protect yourself? What are your thoughts about your cyberspace? How does your company feel about the Web 2.0 world and what have they communicated to you about it?