My colleague Gary Starr returns today with a story worth reading about the need for employers to secure confidential information. Although it is based on Massachusetts, the concepts it covers may have some carryover to employers elsewhere as well.
Employers that maintain records of their employees and customers and allow employees have access to
Yesterday, President Obama signed the Defend Trade Secrets Act — a broad federal law designed to give companies added protection. It does not circumvent state law — indeed, where a state law is more protective of the trade secret, it still applies. Nevertheless, it provides a base level of uniformity nationwide.
Back in May, I talked about how data privacy was becoming a bigger issue for companies. Included in that, is the notion that human resources will play a key role in protecting information.
Today comes work of a massive coordinated effort by Chinese hackers to seek personal information on tens of thousands of government workers.
In my post earlier today, I noted that courts have been all over the map on whether someone’s Facebook page info was discoverable.
This afternoon, Facebook announced a new feature that will allow individuals to download all of their own data onto their computers (or into a file.) According to TechCrunch:
Facebook Product Manager David