Technology is great but . . .

Posted in Law ::: January 14, 2009 1:07 PM

Technology is incredible.  I can work and produce for my clients when I'm stuck at the doctor's office or getting my oil changed, all via Blackberry or laptop.  Yet, do you, the employer, have a full grasp of what your employees are doing on the computers you own, on company time? As a case in New Jersey just showed, failure by a company to correct an employee's unlawful Internet activity once it has notice that it may be going on - could expose that company to liability from those the employee hurts in the process.

In the case I speak of, an employee was transmitting pornographic images of his stepdaughter, a child, and transmitting them via the Internet, while at work.  The company knew he was accessing pornographic sites at work (they didn't know about the pictures of the stepdaughter) and failed to properly stop this activity.  Hence, enter the employee's soon to be ex-wife who now sues the company for helping to allow this to happen. 

What's the moral of the story here?  Companies, large and small, need Internet/computer usage policies in place and they need to enforce them.  One needn't risk exposing their company to financial ruin over the degenerative Internet usage of a rogue employee. 

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