Technology, Law, and the Workplace: Week in Review

This week's round-up seems to focus on the small world of the tech industry.

Facebook is in the news for privacy concerns, and is said to be hiring former White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs. Google is introducing a new social tool, +1, just on the heels of its settlement of a privacy charge brought by the FTC. And, finally, the Wisconsin Labor & Employment Law Blog reports on the small world of skilled technology employees: the FTC has filed high-profile antitrust complaints against companies like Lucasfilm and Adobe Systems for allegedly anti-competitive employment practices.

It's a small world after all!

Technology in the Workplace

• Online job listings grow, but Minnesota trails (MSP Business Journal)
• NLRB Holds Employee's Secret Recording of Meeting is Protected Activity (Wisconsin Labor & Employment Law Blog)
• DOJ Finds Non-Solicit Agreements Among High-Tech Employers Violate Antitrust Law (Wisconsin Labor & Employment Law Blog)
• Leaders: Is Your Workplace Facebook Worthy? (Forbes)

Technology and the Law More Generally

• Google Introduces New Social Tool and Settles Privacy Charge (NY Times)
• Right of Publicity and Right of Privacy After Death (Digital Passing)
• A Victim, Her Picture and Facebook (NY Times)
• Facebook Prepares to Add Friends in Washington (NY Times)
• Massachusetts Attorney General Reaches $110,000 Data Breach Settlement with Boston Restaurant Group (Privacy & Information Security Law Blog)

Technology in the News

• Cellphone Radiation May Alter Your Brain. Let's Talk. (NY Times)
• Smartphone Market Expected to Soar in 2011 (Bits)
• Crowdsourcing a Better World (Opinionator)
• Two Twitter Founders Trade Places (Bits)
• Online Mapping Shows Potential to Transform Relief Efforts (NY Times)
• Ethical Quandary for Social Sites (NY Times)
• Paul Baran, Internet Pioneer, Dies at 84 (NY Times)