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LinkedIn Torpedoes Employer's Trade Secrets Claim
- tptacek 16y ago... and so, sales account managers around the country will be required to create company-owned LinkedIn proxy accounts to use the service, subject to strict contractual controls; "the LinkedIn account with your name and our company brand and title on it is the property of Foo Corporation and may be used only for Foo Corporation businesss". 5 years from now, someone on HN^2 writes a comment about those stupid company handbooks, and why can't people just run companies like Nordstrom's used to, where the handbook was only 75 words long.
- ebrenes 16y agoI'm sure the LinkedIn title is more provocative, yet it seems to me that the other assertions including that "Sasqua failed to take even basic steps to protect the secrecy of the information contained in its database" played a significant role in the court's decisions. It's hard to claim confidentiality when the company itself did not treat the information in a confidential manner nor did they follow even basic security principals.