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| employers can be held liable for the actions of their employees in their Internet communications to the same degree as if those employers had written those communications on company letterhead |
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| a private piece of a compnay's Internet network that is made available to customers and/or vendor partners on the basis of secured access by unique password |
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| a company's internal web site, containing information for employee access only |
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| the ability to work outside of your office (from your home or anywhere else) and log in to your company network (usually via a secure gateway such as a VPN, virutal private network) |
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| when jobs are plentiful and the employee would have no difficulty in finding another position, then the employee has a realistic alternative if he or she finds a monotoring policy unacceptable, and consent can be classiffied as thick |
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| when an employee receives formal notification that the company will be monitoring all email and web activity - either at the time of hire or during employment - and it is made clear in that notification that his or her continued employment with the company will be dependent on the employee's agreement to abide by that monitoring |
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| a legal concept that means a party may be held reponsible for injury or damage even when he or she was not actively involved in an accident |
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