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Category RSS FeedFacebook Firings and Social Media Policies – What to Do? – Part 1
Surely you can fire someone who mouths off on Facebook about the company, right? After all, most employees (in Texas, anyway) are at will employees. You may even have a social media policy that warns employees not to say disparaging things about the company online. Unfortunately, it is not that clear.
The National Labor Relations Labor Board … Continue Reading
Part 2 – DO I NEED A WISP AND WHAT IS A WISP? Deadline Approaching for yours
In part one, we talked about whether you need a Written Information Security Plan or WISP and the importance of the March 1, 2012, deadline for vendor compliance. Now, we discuss what exactly is in a WISP?
Generally speaking, it is supposed to cover the development, implementation, maintenance and monitoring of the collection and use of personal information. … Continue Reading
Who Owns Your Twitter Followers or LinkedIn Connections?
For 99% of us, it really won’t ever be an issue — our social media presence just isn’t that important. Unless your job is to tweet or drive traffic to the company website, your company probably won’t even want your twitter followers who read what you had for lunch or your take on the Republican primary. … Continue Reading
COPPA – The Introduction
I did a Lawlines CLE entitled Online Marketing to Minors: Legal Pitfalls & Ramifications. Over the next couple of weeks, I will be posting some clips from the presentation here that should give you a good idea of proposals the FTC is making to update the Children’s Online Privacy and Protection Act. For a basic introduction … Continue Reading
COPPA and ONLINE MARKETING TO CHILDREN WEBINAR ON TUESDAY NOVEMBER 8
In cooperation with Lawlines, I will be presenting a webinar titled “Online Marketing to Minors: Legal Pitfalls and Ramifications” on Tuesday, November 8, 2011, at 2:00 p.m. central (fee required). The presentation will be recorded and available later on the Lawlines website.
We will discuss the Federal Trade Commission’s recent guidelines on the Children’s Online Privacy … Continue Reading
Legally Marketing When Marketing Legal
My BNA article on the Habush decision is out today and can be read here. The case deals with the bidding on a lawyer’s name by another lawyer to bring up paid advertising. You can read the summary from this prior post that asks whether bidding on another lawyer’s name was illegal or merely unethical.
I do … Continue Reading
Summer Ruminations: Too old to share too much
The blog has taken a back seat to pro bono work, longer articles to be published and, most importantly, family vacations.
Before we left for our week long vacation, I thought about posting something about the hiatus and linking to this article from the Borowitz Report about short cuts in August columns because of vacations.
But then, the … Continue Reading
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