People’s Actual Info Used in Training Videos for Employees
| People’s Actual Info Used in Training Videos for Employees | |
|---|---|
| Short Title | A Company Used Real People’s Names and Home Addresses As Examples in a Employee Training |
| Location | United States |
| Date | July 2020 |
| Solove Harm | Breach of Confidentiality, Secondary Use |
| Information | Contact, Identifying, Location |
| Threat Actors | Unidentified company |
| Individuals | |
| Affected | Leads of the company |
| High Risk Groups | |
| Tangible Harms | |
A person posted about their company practices of using real people's personal information for the purposes of employee training. The information is collected from the leads of the company.
Description
A person posted about their company practice, where employees are asked to undergo an online retraining through a series of internal video courses. One of the tools they use is a database for keeping track of leads, which had its own series of videos.
These lead profiles contain a lot of personal data of actual people (not made-up people, as one might assume in the context of an online training): names, phone numbers, email, even home addresses.
This is because people share that info when they fill out our online form of the company in order to view the prices. This can be seen as Breach of Confidentiality and Secondary Use.
Laws and Regulations
Sources
https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/i2h8bh/this is why you should give companies/