Actions by Employers and Universities on Social Media Violations

Actions by Employers and Universities on Social Media Violations

Actions by Employers and Universities on Social Media Violations
American Medical Association demands that health care organizations through management
and employees enforce rules that focus on the need to uphold the confidentiality of patient care.
Social media usage is increasing with advancing technology. Majority of the population use one
or more social media applications on a daily basis and so employees and students have unlimited
access to their use too.

Despite of the benefits of social media in engaging clients, networking between employees,
increasing the website and blog traffic and making awareness of events and items available to the
community; employers and universities must be accountable to all information their employees ,
students, and teachers post or upload on social media whether in the organizations grounds or
not. These organizations are held liable for posts made by their employees or students on
personal networking sites and so are they should be able to make the decisions based on the
individuals’ posts. Employees and students represent the outward view of their organizations and
so any defamatory or confidential violations could result in reputation damages and civil lawsuits
from the defendants.

The organizations reserve the rights to access their employees or student’s social network
accounts to complete a thorough investigate any infringement. They also authorized to install
software on organizational computers which hire third-party assistance in monitoring online

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SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE MODERN IMPACT OF INFORMATICS
activities to protect the privacy and reputation of the organizations. Programs like Social Sentinel
are installed within colleges through the collaboration of college administration to help in
analyzing the potential violations. They also develop social media policies with a clear definition
of acceptable behaviors while employed or attending those particular schools (Britton, 2015).
These monitoring measurers enables the organization, online security team, to be able to track
and bring forth any violations committed. The violators can face disciplinary actions and legal
actions too for severe cases. For example, some teachers and nursing staff have been terminated
related to posting confidential information on their Facebook account and Twitter accounts.
Failure for these organizations to hold their employees and students accountable can result in
severe consequences to them.