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    <title><![CDATA[Discussion on Monitoring or snooping? When employers' social media checks cross the line ]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA[Depends on Employer]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[My take in this that while employers should respect the privacy of their employees, they have a reputation to maintain for their business. I think that maybe it is better off that during work hours there should be limit on Facebook activities at work and that employers should not have access to their employees social networking stuff and try to use it to discriminate them in the work place. Anyone that tries to monitor the information should take responsibility to maintain the anonymity of the person or people involved in the incident. Now you work at sensitive organizations say like top-secret government branch for example, I think you as the individual should realize that certain rights do not apply and that you surrender ALL privacy in the name of national security. However, this is an extreme case. A good compromise is that if you maintain a responsible composure in the workplace, you must also practice the same responsible composure outside the workplace. That said, with the distribution of the internet at the speed of light, you never know what personal and private information can emerge, and the consequences could be regrettable and problematic. When in doubt, post little information of yourself and activities and try to keep a low mild manner profile. This ensures the professionalism in the workplace.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2012 21:34:07 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Fb Login Requirement]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I would relish the opportunity to decline any such request, and make it very public about who demanded such information.  I would also suggest that if you are put in that situation, your reaction should be to shout down the requestor and run screaming through the office, jumping on and over tables and tipping over various appliances.  This would have the effect of discouraging future questioning of this type if this reaction were expected from ALL.  LOL]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 10:59:50 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[No way]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Any candidate that would be prepared to give me one of their logins during an interview would be shown the door immediately.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[juliannicholls]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 04:17:55 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Interesting]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Currently I'm even happier that I don't live in the US as it now appears that if you are silly enough to work for a Boss, which in reality most of us are, apparently somehow in the US you give away all your rights to any sort of Private Life and accept that whoever you work for should have control over what you say and do.I really though that Slavery had been outlawed even in the US but apparently I was wrong and it's alive and well there. Now all I have to do is start a movement to bring in Trade Restrictions on any company who deals with US interests or companies. Seems that Zukky has brought back to light this discussing practice and all US Business are only too willing to go along for the free ride and turn their staff into brain dead zombies. I now think I better understand the&quot; American Fetish&quot; with Zombies as they accept that most of them are already one of the Undead and are just wanting to watch movies/read books of what the others get up to so that they feel better in themselves. Col]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[HAL 9000]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2012 06:01:29 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Your employees social media posts only damage your reputation if]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[They identify themselves as your employee. By actively stalking employee facebook pages you may end up creating a problem where none exists... That is, by looking at all of their pages and relying on your HR staff to decide what's &quot;okay&quot; or not.Your staff has a right to live a semi-private life among their friends without you spying on their every wall-post on Facebook... Have them sign something that says if there's a problem brought to our attention, you'll be terminated, and If there's a problem, deal with it. Otherwise?Unless &quot;something happens&quot; that needs to be addressed, the best policy is to ignore your employees' social media pages because of the massive risk of litigation it opens you up to. Suddenly, you can find out things that you're not entitled to use to make hiring/firing decisions--but if the person who loses his job finds out you've been stalking his profile, his attorney may decide that's &quot;evidence&quot; that you really fired him over that picture of him kissing another guy or participating in a non-mainstream religion.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[tom.marsh@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 10:31:32 -0700</pubDate>
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