Could Social Networking at Work Leave SMBs Playing Russian Roulette with the Law?
Research by IDC published in January this year found that 57 percent of U.S. workers use social media for business purposes at least once per week. As social networking and collaboration tools that started out in the home become increasingly absorbed into the workplace it appears that the business environment is inexorably changing forever. As ever, major change in business culture brings new risks. Social networking at work presents unseen challenges for both individuals and companies. This month Purdy FitzGerald Solicitors, a prominent law firm, was among the first to sound a warning. They note that the more business embraces social networking techniques to spread their messages and build their brands the more the dividing lines between personal and company data are becoming blurred. For firms there is a real danger this could lead to ownership issues being contested in the courts. At SpamTitan we believe that Internet filtering software such as our own WebTitan product can help. In
