Corporate totalitarianism on your social

Originally published on 28 August 2014

Sruthijith KK, of Quartz:

Hundreds of journalists working at the Times of India and its sister publications have received a peculiar request from their employer: hand over your Twitter and Facebook passwords and let us post for you.

Even after you leave the company.

Beyond being bound to a work contract, what gives such employers the right to own an employee’s very own social representation?

I foresee affected accounts to list the trailing bio insert “tweets are not my own”.

(Be sure to read the second-half of the post, where the contract is deciphered into layman’s terms.)

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