The Gap Compromises Job Applicants With Lost Laptop
Monday October 1, 2007
Say it isn't so! A laptop storing unencrypted sensitive personal information about hundreds of thousands of people was stolen? A year or two ago, that news might be shocking. Now, people are numb to such headlines. It is just another day. Laptop thefts and compromised data headlines are almost as common as the weather, or last night's sports scores. The latest headline is The Gap, which announced that the personal information of over 800,000 job applicants was stored on a laptop which was stolen. I haven't done the math, but unless the same people are affected by every one of these data security compromises, it seems to me that we are approaching the point where every consumer in America has been a victim. For more about this latest breach of consumer trust, read The Gap Job Applicant Data Stolen.
Comments
800,000 job applicants? How many years ago did most of these people apply?
It’s wrong for any business to retain that kind of information on an applicant after he hasn’t been hired.
At the time when a person is rejected for employment, or chooses not to work for a company, the data should be destroyed.
Everyone who’d applied in the last year or so got the letter. I got one. : (