Legal Question in Personal Injury in Nevada

I was recently terminated from a job I held for the past 3 yrs (in NV). The reason for termination was that management somehow got a hold of a personal note/blog that I wrote (on my own computer, at home) on Facebook, allowing only specific friends to see it (it wasnt even searchable through Google). The note upset management because I wrote of my personal feelings at the time regarding the company, using the company's name. Even so, is this invasion of privacy?


Asked on 3/19/10, 8:33 am

1 Answer from Attorneys
Jeffrey Cogan Jeffrey A. Cogan, Esq., Ltd.

How can it be invasion of privacy? You put it on the internet for your specific friends to see. By using the Company's name, you possibly libeled the corporate name. Nevada law allows for termination for any reason so long as it is not based upon race, creed, color, sexual orientation, etc. Obviously, one of your friends screwed you because it would be only through them that your employer found out. It is the friend that committed a violation, called "public disclosure of private facts." However, you would have been required to put a notice of confidentiality on your blog to have any privacy rights.

Your only protection is what they may say to a future employer when you list them as a reference. If they defame you, you have a right to sue. Additionally, employers are now regularly checking on job applicants and current employees through the use of social media.

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Answered on 3/24/10, 10:03 am


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