Deployed across millions of individuals at different companies in countries all over the world, sociomeric sensors have the potential to help people collaborate more effectively and create better organizations. But to be effective, companies deploying them should adhere to a “new deal on data” that makes privacy and ethics central to their use, author Ben Waber writes in this book excerpt. Read More…
Enterprises that establish privacy programs have the opportunity to custom-fit existing privacy laws to the specific industry or business. Having a well-thought-out privacy program also can serve as a market differentiator. Here are seven recommendations for crafting a solid corporate privacy program. Read More…
As social media networks have become more prevalent, so have companies’ concerns about privacy. In response, Wave Systems, a public company based in Lee, Mass., has introduced a Web service called Scrambls that allows users to control who sees their Read More…
These days, human resources departments are collecting and storing vast amounts of employee-related data. From turnover rates and workforce characteristics to payroll and employment history, never before have HR professionals had such unfettered access to personal information. But while these Read More…
Three and a half years ago, when Kade Crockford first began working part-time at the ACLU of Massachusetts, the state’s local chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, she was tasked with looking into the federal government’s surveillance activities within Read More…
Technology for storing and analyzing data has advanced to the point where there is no barrier to track the relationship a customer has with a company, whether it be through commercial transactions, social media interactions, other means, or a combination Read More…
Executives from Yahoo, Salesforce.com and Monster Worldwide said at an Internet Association trade group event that the global nature of online commerce calls for better alignment of different countries’ consumer data privacy policies. Read More…
When Harriet Pearson (pictured) was hired by IBM in November 2000 to be its first chief privacy officer, it was a headline-making event. Now that many data use cases are prevalent in business, the chief privacy officer ranks are growing with the largest professional group rising fast in just the past year. Read More…
Dice, a leading tech-industry job site, has unveiled a new service that gathers, sifts and analyzes millions of personal profiles to help recruiters identify candidates for hard-to-fill IT jobs. While the OpenWeb service promises to make online background searches of job seekers more efficient, it also raises privacy questions. Read More…
As collection and use of information about individuals and its use in marketing and research continues to grow, it is clear that there is no easy way to prevent privacy and security breaches. At a January 30 symposium at Georgetown University, legal experts discussed how industry and government can protect data privacy and security. Read More…
