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Evolving Employee Rights in the Age of Web 2.0

Morgan Lewis presented and informative webcast on Web 2.0 from the viewpoint of the company/employee perspective. These are my notes. Panelists: Renee Lawson Carla Oakley Howard Radzely Melinda Riechert James Walsh Companies cannot limit the personal use of these sites. But the line between personal and professional can be very fuzzy. You limit access over [...]

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Supreme Court to Hear Case on Employer Access to Worker Messages

Supreme Court to Hear Case on Employer Access to Worker Messages

How much privacy do workers have when they send text messages from company accounts? Users of text-messaging services “have a reasonable expectation of privacy” regarding messages stored on the service provider’s network, 9th Circuit Judge Kim Wardlaw said in Quon v. Arch Wireless Operating Company, Inc., 529 F.3d 892 (9th Cir. 2008). In that case [...]

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Policies for Private Use of Company Computer Systems and Mobile Devices

Mark E. Schreiber and Barbara A. Lee published an article on the New Liabilities and Policies for Incidental Private Use of Company Electronic Systems and PDAs. The discussion in the article comes from the decision in Quon v. Arch Wireless Operating Company, Inc., 529 F.3d 892 (9th Cir. 2008). In that case the court found [...]

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