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Gartner Predicts Huge Rise in Monitoring of Employees’ Social Media Use
PCWorld

New technologies and services are enabling the growth in employee monitoring, but companies will need to closely manage their monitoring efforts for ethical and legal issues, Andrew Walls, research vice president at Gartner, wrote in the report.

The Legal Ambiguities of Social Media
Human Resource Executive Online

Employers continue to look for guidance on issues related to the evolving use of social media by employees. Creating an appropriate policy remains difficult, but the authors offer some expert advice that may help.

Social Media Changing the Face of Criminal Justice
HispanicBusiness.com

The Virginia State Bar tracks ethical issues concerning how attorneys communicate by and glean evidence from social media, said James McCauley, ethics counsel for the state bar.

DISH® Announces Topic for 2012 “Best in Class” eDiscovery Legal Research
Sacramento Bee

This year, law students will be challenged to address the question of “Under what standard should a court subject an employee’s non-business personal computing activities (eg, social media, documents stored on a personal computer, and/or personal email)?

The Case for Facebook
The Atlantic

Consider this a skeptic’s guide to the bull case for the social network. Facebook just had modern history’s worst IPO and it’s down again today by some percentage that will be quoted endlessly. Yet Facebook is still the world’s largest social media platform.
The Atlantic

Religious freedom issues at heart of HHS lawsuits, legal scholars say
Catholic News Service

(CNS) — The mass media have done the public a disservice by consistently referring to health reform law regulations so narrowly as the “contraceptive mandate,” because it leads people to think the regulations are a matter of interest only to Catholics.

Firms expected to cyberstalk for security
ZDNet Australia

The research and advisory organisation recently published a report into conducting digital surveillance ethically and legally, and found that 60 per cent of corporations will be monitoring social media channels for security breaches and incidents.

Most Corporations Will Spy On Employees By 2015: Research
TechWeekEurope UK

The majority of corporations are expected to monitor their employees’ social media interaction by 2015, suggests research by Gartner, published today. This practice could be increasingly adopted to prevent security breaches and incidents.

Russia’s VKontakte delays IPO after Facebook debacle
Reuters

By John Bowker | MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian social network VKontakte says it won’t risk going ahead with its planned initial public offering fearing a repeat of the botched Facebook float which left US regulators red-faced.

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