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Materials from Social Media Policies

Materials from Social Media Policies

As a follow-up to my presentation on social media polices at the Virtual Corporate Counsel Forum, I’m publishing the slide deck and links to some of the items I discussed. Social Media Policies Download the PowerPoint: ALM Social Media Policies FTC Action against Ann Taylor FTC Action Against Reverb SEC Guidance on the Use of [...]

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Organized Labor and Social Media Policies

While preparing for my presentation today on social media policies, I came a cross this great article by Seth Borden: Labor Disputes Arising out of Social Media. Having organized labor in your workforce will complicate the creation and enforcement of a social media policy. Potential unionizing activities offer similar problems. Employers must consider traditional labor [...]

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Virtual Corporate Counsel Forum

Virtual Corporate Counsel Forum: Social Media Policies

The folks at ALM are producing an online version of their Corporate Counsel’s annual General Counsel Conferences. I’m stepping in to fill a lat minute vacancy for one session: Social Media Policies: Crafting a Uniform Policy Across your Organization and Enforcing It. I’ll be joining Valerie L. Boccadoro, Director and Senior Intellectual Property Counsel at [...]

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Social Networking Malware as Affinity Fraud

Panda Security released its first annual Social Media Risk Index for small- and medium-sized businesses. They surveyed 315 US SMBs with up to 1,000 employees during the month of July. 33 percent of these companies had experienced a malware or virus infection from social networks 23 percent citing employee privacy violations resulting in the loss [...]

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Blatant Self-Promotion

Each year, LexisNexis “honors a select group of blogs that set the online standard for a given industry.” This year, they expanded Top Blogs to include their Business Law Communities. Compliance Building is one of the nominated candidates for the LexisNexis Top 25 Business Law Blogs of 2010, featured on the LexisNexis Corporate & Securities [...]

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The Second FTC Action for Online Endorsements

The Second FTC Action for Online Endorsements

Back in December, the Federal Trade Commission released new guidelines that specifically required bloggers to disclose any material connections to a product or company they are writing about. In May, they brought their first action under those guidelines against Ann Taylor. The FTC declined to bring an enforcement action. Last week, they brought their second [...]

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Social Media as a Risk Factor

Social Media as a Risk Factor

It’s official. Social media is a risk factor. At least according to Estee Lauder and lululemon athletica. Over at Footnoted, Michelle Leder and her team dig through SEC filings digging up the dirt on bad corporate behavior. They were digging through the 10-K for Estee Lauder when Theo Francis came across a new risk factor. [...]

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Supreme Court Rules on the Privacy of Text Messages

Sort of. The Supreme Court issued its ruling in Ontario v. Quon regarding a police chief reviewing the content of a police officer’s text messages with consent or a warrant. Many commenters hoped that the Court would issue a broad statement on an employee’s privacy rights in this age of cloud computing and web 2.0. [...]

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Are Facebook and MySpace Messages Subject to Discovery?

In the recent case of Crispin v. Audigier, a California judge ruled that Facebook and MySpace messages that aren’t publicly available are protected information under the Stored Communications Act, and therefore can’t be subpoenaed for use in civil litigation. Buckley Crispin sued clothing maker Christian Audigier for copyright infringement, alleging that Audigier used his artistic [...]

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Snake Oil 2.0

From Hugh MacLeod of Gaping Void: “Anyone who has spent a lot of time studying blogs and Web 2.0, will be fully aware of all the blethering hyperbole that comes with it. Every business model that ever came before is DEAD, to be replaced forever by community! YAY! Well, some dinosaur business models may be [...]

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