The line between when employees are on or off the clock have become more and more grey with the advent of Blackberries, iPhones, and providing employees with remote login access from their homes. On-call time is considered compensable work time if it is spent primarily for the benefit of the employer and its business. In
Job Applicants Asked To Provide Their Passwords To Social Networking Sites
The City of Bozeman, Montana asked job applicants to provide their user names and login 
information to common social networking sites on their job applications. As you may expect, this has caused a major uproar from privacy groups.
Just over one-year ago, I was asked by employers about what legalities were involved in Googling
Employee’s Personal Data On Company Computers And Devices
The Wall Street Journal recently wrote about how employees are surprised after being given notice that they have been laid-off that they cannot retrieve personal (and business related) information from their computers. The author notes that with advances in technology that often times blur the boundaries between work and personal pursuits, many employees are hit
California Appellate Court Holds Postings On MySpace.com Are Not Private
The issue in Moreno v. Hanford Sentinel, Inc., as stated by the court, is:
… whether an author who posts an article on myspace.com can state a cause of action for invasion of privacy and/or intentional infliction of emotional distress against a person who submits that article to a newspaper for republication.
The case
Jurors Using Twitter During Trials
Today is the first time I heard that courts have having problems with jurors using Twitter during trials. Am I surprised? Not one bit. Is it concerning? Yes.
The article mentions that most of the messages sent via this form of "microbloging" are innocuous, and are simply jurors saying that they are bored during trials.
Google Latitude In The Workplace
Google Latitude, a new Google application allows users to track the physical location 
of other people through a mobile phone or computer. While the GPS tracking technology is nothing new, the amazing aspect of this is how inexpensive tracking technology has become. Many employers have already implemented GPS tracking, but now with Google’s basically
Technology Revolution For The Legal Field
The talk around the Internet these days is all about how times are changing and how someone actually found a use for Twitter. Technology has already changed the legal profession, but we have just barely taken full advantage of the gains that the legal profession can obtain. I believe we are on the cusp