Professional

Professional information belongs to the SOCIAL category of personal information.

Definition

Professional information is defined as information about an individual’s educational or professional career.

i.e. Job titles, salary, work history, school attendance, employee files, employment history, evaluations, references, interviews, certifications, disciplinary actions

Relevant Laws

• Fair Credit Reporting Act of 1970 (United States)
• Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (United States)
• Federal Cybersecurity Workforce Assessment Act of 2015 (United States)
• Federal Election Campaign Act (United States)
• Federal Policy for the Protection Human Subjects (United States)
• Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) (United States)
• Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (United States)
• Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004 (United States)
• Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (United States)
• Pregnancy Discrimination Act (United States)
• Privacy Act of 1974 (United States)
• Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment (United States)
• The Right to Financial Privacy Act of 1978 (United States)

Relevant Articles

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• Animal Agriculture Industry Tracks and Punishes Critics
• Automated Tenants Background Checks
• Belarusian Hackers Leaked Police Personal Information
• Bolsa Familia Social Welfare Program in Brazil
• Canada Revenue Agency Credential Stuffing Attack
• ChatGPT Has a Big Privacy Problem
• China Keeping Records on Muslims
• College Recruitment Database Leak
• Cyber Espionage on LinkedIn
• Data Breach at Immigration Law Firm
• Employee Tracking at Barclays Bank
• Facebook Asking Users to Complete Their Profiles
• Google People Cards Feature
• Google+ Bugs Exposed Private Profile Information
• Hack of Law Enforcement Websites Exposes Personal Information of 700,000 Cops
• Improperly Anonymized Taxi Logs
• Information About Adopting Parents Shared With Birth Parents
• LinkedIn and AI Data Privacy
• Los Angeles Police Uses Powerful Data Analytics Software
• Monitoring of Travellers in the EU
• New York Times sues OpenAI and Microsoft
• Office of Personnel Management Data Breach
• Online Tracking Agency Monitoring Peoples Online Behavior
• Personal Information About Democrats Donors Made Public
• School Makes Parents Consent to Childs Data Collection
• Sisters of Charity Data Breach
• Slack's Insufficient Security Measures
• Student Loan Fraud Through Identity Theft
• Students Grades in Great Britain Calculated by an Algorithm
• TikTok fined 345 million euros over handling of children's data in Europe
• To data breach or not to data breach
• Uni Sends A Database to Everyone From the List
• White House seeks information on tools used for automated employee surveillance