This summer during my internship, we were working on corporate policies for social media use. A big sticky area was monitoring people's use of social media on their own computers, on their own personal time. Naturally, the company policy stated that whenever people were using company-owned computers or phones, they could be monitored. But this policy also said that if employees were to post something negative about the company from their home computer, on their own personal site (say, for example, Facebook), the company reserved the right to monitor the Internet and discipline them for it.
This was controversial, but I think it makes sense because as an employee of the company, if you are bad-mouthing the company on the TV news or on your Facebook page, it should be treated similarly in both situations. And we all know if you are shown on TV saying something bad about your employer, you are not likely to remain an employee for long.
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