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Now Illegal in 3 More States: Employers Cannot Request Passwords to Employee Social Media Accounts

Editor’s Note: The following is an important update, by the wonderful Judith Delaney, on the three new states who have recently passed laws making it illegal for companies to request social media passwords from employees. Back in January of this year, Melissa and I both published a blog post informing you that the states of California, [...]

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Update to Pending and New Online Privacy Laws Around the World

Editor’s Note: Online privacy issues, for individuals and companies alike, are a growing concern and world-wide mission by officials. It is extremely important that we all keep current on, at the very least, the basics of these new laws as they form around the world. The following is an update by Judith Delaney, U.S. attorney specializing [...]

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7 Considerations for Creating a World-Class Privacy Policy

Editor’s note: This is an extremely important post written by the highly qualified Sara Hawkins. When it comes to privacy policies, many companies just go through the motions because they know they have to have one. Periodically, I’ll see a company that’s done a ‘cut and paste’ job because they didn’t’ even bother to read through [...]

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Are You Liable for Tweeting and/or Retweeting an Offensive Tweet?

Editor’s Note: I feel extremely lucky to be providing you with this invaluable article by Judith Delaney of TurnsonPoint Consulting. Judith is an attorney who specializes in social media and online privacy issues around the world, and within this article she elaborates on the legal proceedings that can potentially follow offensive material and communications that get posted [...]

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5 Laws Every Crisis Manager Needs to Know

Editor’s Note: I’m very pleased to provide you with a guest post by Sara Hawkins, attorney and author of the excellent “Blog Law” series. This post was written with American laws in-mind, though the concepts can be applied and adapted for the particular laws within your country, for those of us who are not American. [...]

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What Are Your Online Rights? “Blog Law” Helps You Understand Them

Monday’s post listed a bunch of awesome resources that I highly recommend. That said, yesterday I came across another one that I thought so profound and important in her messaging that it warrants its own post of “you have to read this woman’s blog!!” Her name is Sara Hawkins and she is a lawyer who [...]

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