Pah!
Just mentioning Facebook or Twiter should be a crime.
Let the downvoting begin!
Checking your personal email on a work computer is not a federal crime, a judge in San Francisco has ruled (PDF), despite the US government trying to argue otherwise. Judging on the case of US v Nosal, maverick San Fran judge* Alex Kozinski concluded that doing non-work things on work facilities was not criminal, though he …
I agree that it is an unusual display of common sense from the USA.
There again, it is a place where you can get a Criminal Record for writing on your school desk, beig 10 minutes late for class or wearing your clothes wrongly.
Here is a link for one of them
http://www.amestrib.com/sections/opinion/columns/petula-dvorak-it-crime-be-late-class.html
There was a report today that said that in Texas all of these can result in a class E felony. If you ignore them and continue to be late for class you could end up in a real Jail alongside rapists and murderers.
Like fucking hell you don't! You don't get to fight a war to enforce the association, then a century and a half later say "oh, you can't blame us for them" -- "them" is part of "us", because you lot wouldn't have it any other way. If the United States are unhappy still to count Texas among their number, they have only themselves to blame.
"There was a report today that said that in Texas all of these can result in a class E felony."
Missed something somewhere. Texas, as a state, doesn't have a class E anything so perhaps there was some confusion with another state like Tenn. Texas has class A, B and C misdemeanors and there are 1st, 2nd and 3rd degree felonies as well as a "state jail" felony but nothing even making a fifth tier in either category. Granted that doesn't stop an individual county or city from making additional levels of crap just because they can so it could still be in Texas but not apply to all of Texas.
Perhaps the U.S. could sell off both Texas and California to get rid of the extremes at both ends and use the cash to pay off the national debt, well part of the national debt given the current real estate market.
...and then it'll get thrown out. As it has been.
I love it when there's some article about a US judge throwing out an overzealous prosecutor's claims, or stupid law that's never been enforced, and people yell, "ZOMG jackbooted thug nazi big brother evil Americans!". It must be nice to come from a country where bad laws are never even *suggested*, so that they never have to be struck down.
Perfectly fair given they allowed him to reach and access the site fully. They could of blocked that site and others, but they took the approach of just allowing them, which is akin to entrapment. So fair play to the judge in this respect.
If you don't want your staff accessing facebook and the like via work computers then you get something called a firewall and you read the manual and look at how you can block certain sites.
But hey another company that thinks its easy to not fix problems retrospectivly with lawyers instead of paying for what would not even be deemed talent to carry out such a simple solution.
When the only tool you have is a hammer then every problem looks like a nail. But when your only tool is a lawyer then every problem is your own ruddy fault.
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/misspelling
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/apostrophe
I also think I could have seen a comic about "could of" somewhere once, but I can't find it now.
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The relevant bit from the brief is this:
"...he convinced some of his former colleagues who were still working for Korn/Ferry to help him start a competing business. The employees used their log-in credentials to download source lists, names and contact information from a confidential database on the company’s computer, and then transferred that information to Nosal...."
That fundamentally CFAA, no ifs, ands, butts, or hyperactivist judges about it.