There are currently over 900 million Facebook users worldwide (and
counting). With increased use of social networking comes new concerns for
personal privacy and control of social networking information. More and
more, Facebook activity trickles its way into offline contexts, perhaps none
more so than the employment context. A new trend in the hiring process is
social networking background checks, where some employers go so far as to
request a candidate’s Facebook password. Not only this, but the frequency of
Facebook activity resulting in employment law disputes is increasing, and
has even been found to constitute sufficient grounds for discipline and
termination. This thesis examines the current privacy protection given to
social networking information in the context of the employment relationship,
highlights problems with the current legal landscape in this regard, and
offers an emerging theory, New Virtualism, as a conceptual basis for the
regulation of this issue going forward.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:NSHD.ca#10222/15357 |
| Date | 23 August 2012 |
| Creators | Keliher, Michael |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
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