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If your daughter is a minor, you could go to your boss and say, “Hey, my daughter told me you messaged her on (Facebook or whatever it was), and it made her a bit uncomfortable. I just wanted to make sure you knew that she’s not 18 yet. So, it’s probably best if you go through me if you really need to contact her.” Keep your tone serious but respectful. Don’t give him a reason to say you were threatening or disrespectful. As a parent, you have every right to make this request of him.Just knowing that your daughter told you about it and you have asked that he run any communications through you should stop any creep activity.Also, print out a copy of all previous communications via social networks between the two, take it to HR, and make a confidential statement about what happened. Do not tell your boss you did or are planning to do this. Depending upon the nature of the communication, you can ask HR to take action, or you can ask them to keep the statement on file in case future action becomes necessary. HR would certainly want to be advised of the situation if there is a potential for a crime to be committed.If you work at a small business with no separate HR department, you can go to your boss’s boss with the info. In that case, you might just want to tell him/her what you said to your boss, that you think/hope the situation is cleared up, and that you are just notifying them “just in case”.If your boss IS the HR department (e.g. he’s the owner of the business), then document everything. Record or write down the conversation with your boss, keep printouts of any communications with your daughter, just document anything that is relevant. Note the date and time for everything you document.This will all serve as evidence for your side of the story in case you get fired or he crosses a line of illegal conduct towards a minor. For the latter, you’ll need to give it to the police as evidence. Educate yourself now about the laws in your area that may apply. For the former, maybe you can sue him for illegally firing you, or turn the information in to the Better Business Bureau, or take the whole story to your local TV news station or newspaper.If your daughter is a consenting adult, it is probably best if she handles the situation herself, while you say nothing about it directly to your boss. You can certainly coach your daughter on how to get rid of his intrusion, but your best bet is to let your boss believe that you know nothing about it or that you are just staying out of it. Unless your daughter works for the same company, this isn’t harassment in the workplace, so she’ll just have to get rid of him like she would any other creep.If he mentions the issue to you at work in any way, you can explain to him that she is an adult and you do not wish to get involved in the issue. Then go to HR and make a confidential statement about the issue and about your concern that this may in the future adversely affect your job through no fault of your own. That way you will have told your side of the story first.

Yes and no--is this a lawyerly answer or what? Once you have made certain that you have an attorney-client relationship with your lawyer, your can disclose your prior bad acts to your heart's content without fear that your lawyer will disclose them. Confidentiality is the hallmark of the attorney-client relationship, and cannot be violated, even if the crimes you confess to are terrible in nature. A lawyer who knowingly violates his/her client's confidentiality could be suspended or disbarred. Bottom line, if you tell your lawyer "I killed my spouse, and the body is at X location," your lawyer may not disclose this to anyone without your permission, even if he/she thinks you are scum.That being said, confidentiality is not absolute. There is a narrow doctrine, often called the Tarasoff rule, that holds that certain professionals have a duty to warn others when they know, or suspect beyond a reasonable doubt, that a client/patient is going to inflict specific harm on someone else in the future. Tarasoff was a case in California involving an individual who told his psychologist that he was going to stab a woman he was infatuated with, which he later did. In California, a court held that, confidentiality notwithstanding, a mental health professional had a duty to warn of a client who presented a specific danger to others. A minority of states have held that such duties apply to lawyers, another minority of states have held that such duties do not apply to lawyers, and most states have tried to draw some kind of line about where a lawyer has the option--but not the duty--to violate confidentiality to prevent future crime. If you tell your lawyer during a divorce "I wish my spouse was dead," that is still likely to be a confidential statement--it's not specific, and is probably uttered myriad times during divorces, so it can't necessarily be taken seriously. But depending on where you reside in the U.S., telling your lawyer that "after tomorrow's hearing, I am going to shoot my spouse in the courthouse parking lot" may not be a confidential communication.Additionally, there is another exception to privilege known as the "crime/fraud" exception. In a nutshell, if you are involved in an ongoing crime or fraudulent act, and the advice of an attorney is sought in furtherance of these acts, then such communications are not considered privileged, and are subject to discovery by an opponent. If you were planning to rob a bank, for example, the fact that you asked your lawyer about the extradition laws of various countries might lose its confidentiality and be subject to discovery.Regardless, is it a good idea to confess your crimes to your lawyer? I answered this elsewhere, see Should you admit guilt to your defense attorney? Will they still be able to defend you?, but the short answer is that admitting guilt may limit your lawyer's ability to defend you, since one thing lawyers cannot do is suborn perjury, i.e., offer statements they know to be false. Thus, if you inform your lawyer of your guilt, he or she cannot argue to a judge or jury that "my client is innocent of all charges." Contrary to the conventional wisdom that "lawyers lie all the time," a lawyer can be suspended or disbarred for knowingly lying to the court, or allowing the client to lie.

No idea.Because at the top of the email, it’s enforceable:ProCD, Inc. v. Zeidenberg - Wikipedia