{"id":1528,"date":"2008-04-23T10:10:38","date_gmt":"2008-04-23T15:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/04\/big-brother-scanning-your-contacts\/"},"modified":"2008-04-23T10:07:25","modified_gmt":"2008-04-23T15:07:25","slug":"big-brother-scanning-your-contacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/04\/big-brother-scanning-your-contacts\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Brother Scanning Your Contacts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB120873921822130069.html?mod=\">This Wall Street Journal quick-hit article<\/a> is shocking:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Companies are rolling out software that allows them to mine their employees&#8217; emails and electronic address books for contact information, in a bid to make it easier to establish relationships with potential clients and others. But the tools also raise privacy concerns, and have been met with resistance at some firms.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Raises privacy concerns&#8221;&#8230;that is an understatement.\u00a0 There has to be more to this story, but I can&#8217;t imagine companies using these tools.\u00a0 If they do, I suspect the natural reaction will be for employees to carry around their contact info on their cell phone and <em>not<\/em> place it on their company computer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Wall Street Journal quick-hit article is shocking: Companies are rolling out software that allows them to mine their employees&#8217; emails and electronic address books for contact information, in a bid to make it easier to establish relationships with potential clients and others. But the tools also raise privacy concerns, and have been met with resistance at some firms. &#8220;Raises privacy concerns&#8221;&#8230;that is an understatement.\u00a0 There has to be more to this story, but I can&#8217;t imagine companies using these tools.\u00a0 If they do, I suspect the natural reaction will be for employees to carry around their contact info on their cell phone and not place it on their company&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/04\/big-brother-scanning-your-contacts\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,5],"tags":[569,570,572,571],"class_list":["post-1528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-team-management","category-trends","tag-eavesdropping","tag-electronic-surveilance","tag-monitoring-email","tag-monitoring-employees"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-oE","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1689,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/08\/an-electronic-leash\/","url_meta":{"origin":1528,"position":0},"title":"An Electronic Leash","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"August 5, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"You just knew this was going to happen - companies are using technology to monitor remote employees.\u00a0 The Wall Street Journal provides this article that illustrates what approaches are used by employers: They're taking photos of workers' computer screens at random, counting keystrokes and mouse clicks and snapping photos of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sales Management&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Sales Management","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/sales-management\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":170,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/07\/social-networking-between-candidates-and-your-employees\/","url_meta":{"origin":1528,"position":1},"title":"Social Networking Between Candidates and Your Employees","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"July 14, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"All honesty here, we are not well informed on the entire social networking side of the web. 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