Last week the state of Maryland became the first state to ban employers from asking for employees or potential employees for access to their personal social media accounts such as Facebook, Twitter, and others. According to the Washington Post the law grew out of an incident between a corrections officer and his supervisor,...
Read more →According to Sgt. Gary Stein of the U.S. Marine Corps, he was just exercising his First Amendment right to free speech when he criticized President Obama by putting the President’s face on a “Jackass” movie poster on Facebook. After all, it went out to just the people in his network, and any U.S. citizen should have the right to...
Read more →With social media as common as it is, you would expect that adequate social media policies would be almost as common. Though most companies now have some form of social media policy, the problem is that many of them are not adequate in addressing the risks as compared to the rewards for a company....
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