Ideas, Rule

In my last post I wrote about how there should be some kind of monitoring service. One of my friends critiqued me that this is against the whole concept of freedom of expression blah blah blah.

I disagreed. The service is meant only for Enterprises and companies susceptible to get pulled into court because either employee has said something inappropriate. Now the next question is does this “check” apply for every social network? NO. Minitoring applies to those sites where employees put their company names (examples: LinkedIn, Facebook) because now the world sees their talks and associates them with the company.

Think about anti sexual harrassment policy we all sign when we take up a job. Infosys did not have any such policy and when Phaneesh Murthy’s scandal came up in 2003, it was company who had to pay 3 million USD.  Why? The simple reason is Infosys did not a policy which employees had signed. 

I am referring to similar issues which companies will face. So if we have such service they will serve two purpose.

A. Corporations will get a disclaimer from the employees that whatever activities an employee does, enterprise doesn’t have any role in it.

B. Monitor and report back any illegal/ inappropriate talk on the web, so that before it reaches every mailbox it can be pulled down.

Yeah, I think it will be needed soon.

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