In case you’ve not paid attention to the news in the past week, there has been a barrage of stories (over 1500 turned up in a quick online search) about organizations asking job applicants and employees for their Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other social networking passwords. It’s a hot topic folks! I’ve listed a bunch of them at the end of this post. Compelled password disclosure is a very bad idea for organizations to do for many reasons. Here are six that should be compelling to business management: (more…)
Posts Tagged ‘employee privacy’
What Happens To Privacy During Pandemics?
Monday, September 14th, 2009I am talking to increasing numbers of privacy and information security pros who are concerned about not only getting their pandemic plans in place, but also wanting to know what kinds of privacy issues need to be addressed within the plans.
Employee Rights to PII When You Leave Your Employer or Lose Your Job
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009I often get emails from my blog and Twitter readers, many of whom I have never met before; sometimes several in a day. Many often ask for help that really is a call for free consulting help. Others are quick, short and fast for me to answer. Others are just bizarre. I answer whatever I have time for. I recently got the following question (edited to protect identities), and I think so many folks may be involved in a similar situation with all the continuing job losses that it might be useful to several folks…
Here’s the link for Web 2.0 Privacy and Security Considerations
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009I forgot the link to my article yesterday!!
Here it is…
“Web 2.0 Privacy and Security Considerations”
Web 2.0 Privacy and Security Considerations
Monday, March 9th, 2009I’ve been having a lot of conversations in the past few weeks about Web 2.0 privacy and security issues. Web 2.0 certainly has greatly enhanced how the Internet can be used. Posting information on blogs, social networking sites, microblogs (such as Twitter), texting, IMing and an assortment of other types of activities have become a normal part of many people’s lives.
Web 2.0 Privacy and Security Considerations
Monday, March 9th, 2009I’ve been having a lot of conversations in the past few weeks about Web 2.0 privacy and security issues. Web 2.0 certainly has greatly enhanced how the Internet can be used. Posting information on blogs, social networking sites, microblogs (such as Twitter), texting, IMing and an assortment of other types of activities have become a normal part of many people’s lives.
UK Company Caught Selling Their Employees’ & Job Applicants’ PII
Thursday, March 5th, 2009Here’s an interesting shocking story about some bad…make that VERY BAD…business decisions in the UK to make money by selling employees’, and job applicants’, personally identifiable information (PII) as a revenue stream…
Another Example Of How Internet Information Impacts Employment Decisions
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008I’ve blogged several times about how employers are inreasingly using information found on the Internet to make hiring, and firing, decisions, such as here and here.
I’ve also written about it several times, such as here.
Here’s another example to add to your files for how information posted to social networking sites, such as MySpace and Facebook, can impact your employment situation where a woman graduating with an education degree was denied teaching credentials, and this is not the first time a situation has occurred similar to this…
Click Wrap Contracts: Creating Them And Agreeing To Them
Monday, May 5th, 2008There was an interesting article in this week’s issue of Privacy and Security Law, “Clickwrap Notifying Software Recipients Of Pop-Up Installation Is Valid, Enforceable” (a subscription site).
What Business Leaders Need To Know About Employee Privacy
Sunday, May 4th, 2008Here it is May, and I’m just now getting all of my April IT Compliance in Realtime Journal articles blogged about! Being in Las Vegas for a week at CSI SX / Interop really put a monkey wrench in my blogging activity last week.
While at the conference I spoke with many information security and IT leaders about privacy. Most have customer privacy on their minds, but a significant portion have not thought about employee privacy issues.
So, this article, “What Business Leaders Need To Know About Employee Privacy,” which is the third in my April IT Compliance in Realtime Journal issue, is pretty timely.
Download the April issue to get a much prettier, formatted version. Here is the unformatted article…
