Who Is Affected by Privacy Laws and Issues?
In a word, everyone. If your business has employees, then you have privacy issues. Employee records, health, medical and insurance information, employee performance data, employee portals, intranets, eLearning facilities, monitoring employee use of technologies, and more are some of the ways businesses collect data on employees – data that is or may be subject to privacy laws and regulations. If you plan to outsource any of your employee or human resources functions or some of your technology functions, you will encounter and be forced to deal with these privacy issues. If your business is in one of the U.S. regulated industries, such as financial or health care, then you have additional privacy issues to address, and you have additional issues to address with your supplier. If your business collects information from customers, whether in a consumer or business context, then you have privacy issues regarding the collection, use and disclosure of that data. If your business shares data
