If you had told me a couple years ago that I’d spend that much time on twitter, I would have laughed, rolled my eyes, and silently declared you a complete wingnut.
This week our resident lawyer and photographer Heather Bussing points her lens at photo sharing copyright laws on Pinterest. Jay Cross returns to our HRExaminer Editorial Advisory Board to discuss your most valuable asset (guessed it yet?). John Sumser looks to the second generation of social media and profiles Evenbase, the European digital recruiting up-and-comer.
If you ‘pin’ photos to Pinterest you are probably violating copyright law. Have you looked at the Pinterest User Agreement? They put the liability for copyright violations on YOU.
HR Examiner Weekly Edition v 3.15 April 13, 2012 Is Weight Discrimination OK? As a business owner, I depend on you for advice that helps me run my business and contributes to the bottom line. You’re my partner in building a better, stronger company, right? So here’s what I’m wondering: When is it OK to […]
Appearance requirements are tricky because even though appearance based discrimination is not technically illegal, it’s really difficult to justify when the rules on appearance also discriminate based on protected factors.
If you’re a Human Resources professional you need to know more than the average consumer does about these questions. This week, our resident lawyer Heather Bussing and HR analyst John Sumser walk us through the Privacyscape.
While the White House Report declares: “Never has privacy been more important than today”, Wired Magazine reports the US Government is building a giant spy center. The “Utah Data Center” is purportedly designed to intercept and collect every digital communication.
Private does not mean that people can’t ever find out. Like any secret, the minute you tell it to someone who doesn’t have any requirement to keep it confidential, it’s not secret anymore. So even though the law recognizes general categories of “private information,” if you disclose it, it’s not private anymore.
When the website or online service is free, chances are the product being sold is you. The most common tracking is done to better target ads to you or sell this info to others in aggregate form for the same purpose. Information is also collected to improve the websites or online services you use.
“We have this illusion that each of these bits of information is separate, that the companies collecting the information don’t share it. So we are the only ones who really have the whole picture about what our lives are like.”
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