Citizen Media Law Project: Employee Privacy and Social Networks: The Case for a New Don’t Ask...

Jul 2, 2009
 

“Three can keep a secret, if two are dead.” – Benjamin Franklin Private thoughts are a dying breed . You may recall the story of the city government of Bozeman, Montana , which mandated that job applicants turn over their social networking passwords . Another “give me (voluntary) access to your private life or I will hurt you” case has appeared, this time in a Houston’s Restaurant in New Jersey . After the management at Houston’s learned that two servers, Brian Pietrylo and Doreen Marino, had set up an invite-only MySpace group as a venting forum for their dissatisfied peers, the bosses demanded that a hostess and member of the group, Karen St. Jean, give up the password . She did. They did not like what they read (e.g., “let the shit talking begin" “stupid corporate fucks" and "dick suckers"). And then management fired... [read full story]                    

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