Washington State has joined the ranks of Arkansas, California, Colorado, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, and Utah, in passing a law that prohibits employers from asking and gaining access to their employees’ private social media accounts. This law means that employers cannot: Ask for usernames and passwords of their employees’ social media accounts Make […]
Local and International Laws for Protecting Your Social Media Accounts
Editor’s Note: This is the fourth part of a 4-part series on social media law: protecting the ownership of your social media accounts (for both employers and employees). Over the course of this week, we’ve looked at a 2011 case, PhoneDog vs. Kravitz, where a company sued a former employee for that employee’s Twitter account, used to […]
How to Create Policies to Legally Protect Your Brand’s Social Media Accounts
Editor’s Note: This is the third part of a 4-part series on social media law: protecting the ownership of your social media accounts (for both employers and employees). This week we’ve been exploring a 2011 case of an employer and former employee battling it out legally, over a Twitter account valued at $340,000. It’s a case […]
Do Social Media Accounts Legally Belong to the Employer or Employee?
Editor’s Note: This is the second part of a 4-part series on social media law: protecting the ownership of your social media accounts (for both employers and employees). Yesterday we looked at a 2011 court case that involved an employer and employee battling over a Twitter account valued at $340,000; and we answered the question of […]
Can You Sue Former Employees for Social Media Accounts?
Editor’s Note: This is the first of a 4-part series on social media law: protecting the ownership of your social media accounts (for both employers and employees). I recently came across a very interesting lawsuit between a company and their former employee over ownership of a Twitter account. It’s the case of PhoneDog vs. Kravitz […]
