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Managing the legal risks of social technology

McCarthy Tetrault George S. Tach A different risk posed by Web 2.0 technologies involves the inadvertent disclosure of intellectual property. Consider trade secrets. The law will afford protection to an organization's trade secrets -- including its confidential information -- so long as the organization takes reasonable measures to keep the material confidential. It is extremely easy, however, to let a secret slip out during a Web 2.0 chat, blog posting or tweet. Again, we have already had an analogue to this risk in the Web 1.0 environment, namely the errant e-mail (for example, adding a non-company name to the "cc" list on sensitive, trade secret laden e-mail, and then having to hope that the "recall" technology works). To continue reading this interesting article from Lexicology, click here.

Full post as published by The Trade Secrets Vault on January 27, 2010 (boomark / email).