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Who Owns Your Online Networking Contacts?

Posted by kdawson on from the nothing-personal dept.

Ben Morris writes "A recent judgement in the UK courts has forced a former employee to hand over details of his business contacts built up through LinkedIn.com while he was employed by his former company. The decision is one of the first in the UK to show the tension between businesses encouraging their employees to use social networking websites, and trying to claim that the contacts should remain confidential when they leave."

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  1. Good luck with that by BlueZombie · · Score: 5, Interesting

    To all you worker drones out there:

    • Always read what you sign.
    • Respect it to the letter
    • Whether you respect it beyond the letter, is up to you

    To all you bosses out there:

    • You can maybe force me to turn over an address book
    • But you cannot force me to turn over years of personal relationships I've carefully built
    • So treat me good while you have me
    • Or you'll miss me when I'm gone