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My knee-jerk reaction is that my facebook account is not my employer's business.
But I was listening to NPR the other day about this issue, and a caller into the show explained that she owned a daycare, and that she currently requires employees to "friend" her, and she reviews their pages regularly. Why? Because a previous employee had taken pictures of the kids at various events and during various activities at the daycare center. Many of the pictures had ended up on the center's bulletin board, no problem. Some of the pictures had ended up on the employee's facebook page, and some parents got very upset that pictures of their children were on the internet without parental permission or knowledge.
So employers do have some liability, and have an interest in employees and what the employees do and say on the internet. That has to be recognized by the law. And the law and employers have to recognize that employees do have some rights to privacy. And hopefully our legislators will find a way to balance those two conflicting interests.
My knee-jerk reaction is that my facebook account is not my employer's business.
But I was listening to NPR the other day about this issue, and a caller into the show explained that she owned a daycare, and that she currently requires employees to "friend" her, and she reviews their pages regularly. Why? Because a previous employee had taken pictures of the kids at various events and during various activities at the daycare center. Many of the pictures had ended up on the center's bulletin board, no problem. Some of the pictures had ended up on the employee's facebook page, and some parents got very upset that pictures of their children were on the internet without parental permission or knowledge.
So employers do have some liability, and have an interest in employees and what the employees do and say on the internet. That has to be recognized by the law. And the law and employers have to recognize that employees do have some rights to privacy. And hopefully our legislators will find a way to balance those two conflicting interests.
Again, an employer does not need your password to monitor content. If they should find something improper, they can require you to delete it.
And that same exclusion would keep the public from viewing it, also. If the info isn't public what interest/need would your employer have?
Well, in the case of the daycare center owner, what if the employee was a pedophile and was sharing pictures of the kids with a network of other pedophiles. The pictures would not be on the public page, they would be content restricted to a certain group of friends the employee had.
There are way too many sites a person could potentially post something an employer doesn't approve of online, most anonymously and most unknown by employers. Concentrating on FB is pointless.
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