LinkedIn and Google Fails to Keep Customers Private Data
LinkedIn and Google both are facing problems while keeping customers data private. On July 3, 2008 Google has confirmed that personal data of U.S. employees hired prior to 2006 have been stolen in a recent burglary. LinkedIn was founded five years ago and provides business networking service. LinkedIn works same as other social networking service first users has to register with LinkedIn and then connect with their friends or can find new friends there.
HR companies sees LinkedIn a source of professional profiles they have to pay some money and they have access to a number of professional profiles. LinkedIn’s new Enterprise Corporate Solution allows access to all LinkedIn members, and there are bout 23 million of them in all. With a simple search, one can find loads of profiles which can then be sent to recruiters and HR companies.
July 6th, 2008 at 4:24 am
The title of this post is mis leading, it is not customers data that google failed to keep it privage. it is google employee’s data maintained by a third party company google hired for HR purpose got stolen.
Ramesh
The Geek Stuff