Henry Blint

In my work I see a lot of employee spreadsheets provided by HR to third-party companies that are providing benefits to their employees.  Some of these benefits providers do not scrupulously safeguard sensitive employee data supplied to them. The data ends up on company LANs in folders that are widely accessible.  You might be surprised to learn how many HR departments routinely send out SSN, date of birth, gender, salary, job title, manager's name, home phone, cellphone, and so on, to third parties that have no real need for that information.  If you wonder why there's so much identity theft, well, HR is partially to blame for that. Get it together, HR!