Comments on: KnowHR Notes: Don’t Put Confidential Information on the Internet http://www.knowhr.com/blog/2006/09/07/knowhr-notes-dont-put-confidential-information-on-the-internet/ Know More HR. Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:07:50 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: KnowHR Blog » Blog Archive » Confidential Do Not Distribute http://www.knowhr.com/blog/2006/09/07/knowhr-notes-dont-put-confidential-information-on-the-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-146 KnowHR Blog » Blog Archive » Confidential Do Not Distribute Sun, 29 Oct 2006 18:05:38 +0000 http://www.knowhr.com/blog/2006/09/07/knowhr-notes-dont-put-confidential-information-on-the-internet/#comment-146 [...] Follow-up Measurement About Google Searching for Confidential Do Not Distribute As communicators, every day we try to keep up on the latest ways to break through the clutter, get attention, and inspire action. To assess how well we do that, we measure our results. So, we looked at the results of one of our recent posts Know HR Notes: Don’t put confidential information on the Internet. The post provided our readers with the statistics about how many highly confidential documents were easily available on the Internet and about how easy it was to find them. Similar posts were propagated throughout the Internet by many blogs. In the search that led to the original post, Google found 60,300 results for the phrase “confidential do not distribute”. [...] [...] Follow-up Measurement About Google Searching for Confidential Do Not Distribute As communicators, every day we try to keep up on the latest ways to break through the clutter, get attention, and inspire action. To assess how well we do that, we measure our results. So, we looked at the results of one of our recent posts Know HR Notes: Don’t put confidential information on the Internet. The post provided our readers with the statistics about how many highly confidential documents were easily available on the Internet and about how easy it was to find them. Similar posts were propagated throughout the Internet by many blogs. In the search that led to the original post, Google found 60,300 results for the phrase “confidential do not distribute”. [...]

]]> By: Sarah http://www.knowhr.com/blog/2006/09/07/knowhr-notes-dont-put-confidential-information-on-the-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-145 Sarah Sun, 29 Oct 2006 13:08:16 +0000 http://www.knowhr.com/blog/2006/09/07/knowhr-notes-dont-put-confidential-information-on-the-internet/#comment-145 I repeated the search for "confidential do not distribute" on the morning of October 29, 2006 and it looks like more than 50,000 internet-users took action ‚Äì at least to eliminate those words from confidential documents. I found only 9,590 results this morning. I also searched a number of variations: secret, top secret, do not distribute, for internal use only, confidential, embargoed, embargoed until, and several others. While trusty Google found many results, I did not find any documents that led to anything juicy that should remain private. It looks companies, the government, organizations and individuals all got the message that documents need to be protected through technical solutions. While I agree with what Naarita says above, that these footers and labels have not been effective at protecting documents on the internet, they do communicate the intent for the use of the document. With appropriate techology solutions, organizatoins can continue to make it clear to employees which documents should not be released to the public. I repeated the search for “confidential do not distribute” on the morning of October 29, 2006 and it looks like more than 50,000 internet-users took action ‚Äì at least to eliminate those words from confidential documents. I found only 9,590 results this morning. I also searched a number of variations: secret, top secret, do not distribute, for internal use only, confidential, embargoed, embargoed until, and several others. While trusty Google found many results, I did not find any documents that led to anything juicy that should remain private. It looks companies, the government, organizations and individuals all got the message that documents need to be protected through technical solutions.

While I agree with what Naarita says above, that these footers and labels have not been effective at protecting documents on the internet, they do communicate the intent for the use of the document. With appropriate techology solutions, organizatoins can continue to make it clear to employees which documents should not be released to the public.

]]> By: naarita http://www.knowhr.com/blog/2006/09/07/knowhr-notes-dont-put-confidential-information-on-the-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-59 naarita Mon, 11 Sep 2006 19:23:26 +0000 http://www.knowhr.com/blog/2006/09/07/knowhr-notes-dont-put-confidential-information-on-the-internet/#comment-59 It's a wonder that this is the case, and it also points out how completely ineffectual these confidentiality footers are. To really protect data privacy and integrity, especially in an email, you must use encryption and anti-theft solutions, like Essential Taceo. Thus, no need for the footer or legal claimer. You're covered. More about Taceo: http://www.essentialsecurity.com/products.htm It’s a wonder that this is the case, and it also points out how completely ineffectual these confidentiality footers are. To really protect data privacy and integrity, especially in an email, you must use encryption and anti-theft solutions, like Essential Taceo. Thus, no need for the footer or legal claimer. You’re covered.
More about Taceo: http://www.essentialsecurity.com/products.htm

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