Last month, I wrote about the Home Depot credit card data breach and the importance of protecting company data. But the issue of protecting employee data is far from new.
Back in 2011, one legal publication had this to say about employee data:
Employers collect a substantial amount of personal information about their employees. Companies
Okay, okay. I realize the headline is a bit misleading. But it isn’t every day that you hear about a data breach at Home Depot in which 56 MILLION credit cards may have been hacked. To put that into perspective, that’s 16
First off, I should let you know that I am a poor substitute for Harrison Ford.
But, don’t let that dissuade you from saving October 16th as the date for a terrific conference that I’m helping to plan. The title is “Raiders of the Data Ark” and the subject is “2014 Data Privacy & Cyber
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.
Last Thursday, I had the opportunity to speak at the Tri-State SHRM Conference held at Foxwoods Resort Casino. The session was led by Marc Kroll of Comp360 and I thank him publicly for both the invitation and the coordination. But a post about the great work that HR consultants like Marc do is a
There was a point when I looked at my schedule a few weeks ago and wondered how exactly I had agreed to the number of speaking engagements that I had.
Even after I turned down at least a half dozen.
Ah well.
Some are employment law-based, and some are geared to the profession as a
Several years ago, Connecticut passed a law that, for the first time, required employers to take special precautions to protect the personal data of their employees.
For a refresher, you can see my prior posts here and here.
Now, there is news of some tweaks to the law with some implications for employers