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Terms of Service and Employee Social Media Passwords
May 11th, 2012

Over the last couple of months, there has been an interesting debate in Canada and the US about whether an employer can ask for a social media password. For some of the highlights of the conversation in Ontario, see: Toronto Star article on March 20, 2012;  Dan Michaluk... Read more »

New Ontario Social Media Reference Check Guidelines
May 7th, 2012

Last Thursday, the Ontario Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner released its new guide for online reference checks.  In the face of the recent debates about whether an employer can request personal social media passwords during job interviews, the release of this documen... Read more »

New Workplace in the Social Media Age: Law Society Program on Apr 25 & 26
April 13th, 2012

As a nod to the increasing frequency and complexity of social media issues in the workplace, this year’s Law Society of Upper Canada’s Special Lectures is “Employment Law and the New Workplace in the Social Media Age”. As a two day presentation on April 25 and 26, 2012,... Read more »

The Natural Connection Between Social Media Legal Issues & Employment Law
March 9th, 2012

Businesses do not experience the impact of social media in fragmented departmental silos. Rather, social media is an inherently cross-department, internal and external experience for most organizations. Employees, clients, third party providers, experts, consumers, journalists and competit... Read more »

@Phonedog_Noah: Who owns your Employee's Twitter Followers?
January 24th, 2012

If you have encouraged your employees to set up a Twitter account to tweet information about the company’s business, who owns the followers if they leave? This is the question in Phonedog v Noah Kavitz, a California case that will no doubt have an impact in Canada. Phonedog Noah In that... Read more »

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