Wednesday, 30 March 2016

Legal & Ethical Factors of Social Media in Business.


Social Media & Businesses

As more and more people are connected via Social media, businesses are finding more and more use for joining themselves. These businesses use social media for the likes of, advertising, keeping employees connected, e-mail. and multiple more uses.

However, there are many legal issues and ethical factors upon using social media in business.





The following are some of the legal issues that a company may face as it integrates social media into its business practices:

- Disclosure of Confidential Information

- Unauthorized Use of Trademarks

- Unauthorized Use of Copyright-Protected Works

- Human Resources Issues 

- Securities

- Privacy/Publicity

- Defamation


2 comments:

  1. Ruairidh: I feel that this should be reinforced more because as much as we have these laws they are always getting broken so we need these laws to have bigger punishments so people who think about it look and think this will be worse than they thought

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  2. i feel that this too should be reinforced more because as much as we have these laws they are always broken, so we as a nation should have larger punishments so people that continuously break these laws should receive severe punishments - Nathan

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