Labor/Employment
Nov. 10, 2011
As rolodexes go online, ownership is muddy
As companies across the country update their social media policies to protect what they say is proprietary information, sites like LinkedIn have made contacts part of the public domain, not trade secrets.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Not long after Brelyn Hammernick left a Minnesota technology recruiting firm for one of its competitors, she reached out to some of her old contacts using LinkedIn, the popular business-related social networking site.
Her motives were more than social, according to her former employer.
In a lawsuit filed in federal court, Hamernick's former company accused her and two others of violating...
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