Employees’ Use of Social Media and Mobile Devices

Recent court and regulatory decisions are undermining the conventional wisdom that your company has the right to see and control everything moving through your IT systems. The use of social networks and mobile devices by your employees complicates what your company can control, whether it is an issue of comments about the company or other data on an employee’s mobile device. We can advise and represent you on compliance with the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) and analogous state laws, including your monitoring and disclosure of customer, subscriber, and employee communications. We also provide counsel on pretexting liability and managing investigations to avoid liability, as well as online gaming issues, Internet-based privacy issues, and digital rights management and spyware issues.