Do You Own Your Social Networking Friends? Or Does Your Employer...

Courtesy Techdirt  Tue, 08/12/2008 - 13:45

In the sales world, you're often judged on the size and quality of your "rolodex" of contacts. No one expects a salesperson jumping from one job to another to somehow "forget" everyone they know -- or to cough up their entire list of contacts to the previous company.

Yet that seems to be what happened in the UK. Slashdot points us to the news of a court ruling where a guy was forced to give up his LinkedIn contact...


 

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