Be careful of Facebook posts... particularly with confidential information

I have written before on the risks what you post on Facebook. People constantly take risks with what they post on Facebook and for that reason I think there is always a place for a further reminder.

Recently the daughter of a US man took to Facebook boasting about her father's settlement. The problem was the father's settlement was a confidential agreement made with terms not to be disclosed.

The case took place in America but the implications are likely to be the same here. The court found that the Claimant breached the confidentiality provisions of the agreement and for this reason was not entitled to payment of the sizeable settlement fund. The Facebook page declared that her father won and that he was paying for her vacation.