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Gartner: IT Has 'No Moral Basis' To Monitor Facebook Usage

 

Published 12/24/2008 by bevans@techweb.com (Bob Evans) at InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs

Does your IT team spend any time monitoring Facebook usage by employees? If so, you're just wasting your time and reinforcing the reputation that you and your team are busybodies, says Gartner analyst Brian Prentice. But his argument gets downright weird when he asserts such actions are an attempt "to deny people the right to reclaim a semblance of a personal life." (link)

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