How Facebook can Make or Break a case
Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2010 2:35 pm
July 27, 2010: Eric Meyer of Legal Intelligencer writes about How Facebook Can Make or Break Your Case
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- Facebook has over 500 million active users.
Twitter users are recording an average of 55 million tweets a day.
If an employee files suit against your client, what are the odds the employee uses social media? I'd say they're pretty good. Just imagine missing the Facebook post: "I'll do whatever it takes to get back at my employer."
In EEOC v. Simply Storage Management, a federal court permitted an employer to obtain discovery of an employee's social networking activity that, through privacy settings, the employee had made "private" and not available to the general public.