Facebook post to friends breaches confidentiality agreement

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March 6, 2014 Leave a commentPeople, Privacy, SecurityBy Roger Halbheer

A teacher in the US reached a settlement with his former employer regarding an age discrimination suit. It was agreed that the $80k settlement should remain confidential. However, the teacher informed the court that they had to tell their daughter “something”. Which led the girl to post on Facebook (“only” to her 1200 “friends”):

Mama and Papa Snay won the case against Gulliver. Gulliver is now officially paying for my vacation to Europe this summer. SUCK IT.

This was seen by the court as a breach in the confidentiality agreement â€“ no settlement, no vacation.

Careful, what you postâ€¦.

Read the whole article here: US girl loses her father’s $80K settlement after boasting about win on Facebook

Roger

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Roger Halbheer

Roger Halbheer is an Executive Security Advisor at Microsoft in EMEA acting as a trusted advisor to CxO. Before that he was a Managing Director at Accenture's Financial Services. Before joining Accenture, he was the Chief Security Officer of Swisscom (Switzerland's largest telecom provider) and the global Chief Security Advisor for Microsoft.