Facebook Holding Privacy Summit

As a follow-on to yesterday's posts regarding the public face of the Facebook privacy brouhaha, at this hour Facebook is holding an “all-hands” meeting to discuss the company’s overall privacy strategy. PC World suggests that perhaps today’s company meeting is the beginning of Facebook's effort to improve user guidance on issues of sharing and privacy, or maybe the company is considering a roll back of new features. Stay tuned.

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GigaOM » Facebook Needs to Find Its Voice on Privacy
Facebook's Eroding Privacy Policy: A Timeline Electronic Frontier Foundation

Some startling statistics regarding social networking issues in the workplace......

You might be surprised to know that social networking policies, governing employee use of blogging, Facebook, Twitter and the like, are still a rarity at many business, including teaching hospitals. And, you might be equally surprised to hear that studies are revealing that medical students are displaying cavalier attitudes towards the protection of patient confidentiality.

The Journal of the American Medical Association published a the results of an eye-popping study in the September issue. In response to a survey conducted by the Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) and the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics (SCCE), only 38 percent of survey respondents said that they have policies to cover online conduct. The “status update” features of social media platforms encourages people to record what they’re working on or who they are meeting with -- jeopardizing personal information and confidentiality.

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Mintz Levin Client Alert - HCCA/SCCE Survey
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Medical students using Facebook and Twitter can get expelled