LinkedIn Company Groups Create Privacy Concerns

ZD NET -- June 11 -- LinkedIn recently rolled out its Company Groups, which according to the site is a "private place where you can communicate and collaborate with your co-workers." With these seemingly private groups, members may share potentially proprietary information about customers, partners, product roadmaps or even financials with former employees. According to LinkedIn's help documents for Company Groups: "When someone leaves the company and updates their position on their LinkedIn profile, they are automatically removed from the company network. If the person has forgotten to update their LinkedIn profile, you can flag their position to indicate that they no longer work at the company and that they should be removed from the company network". But that employee continues to have access until LinkedIn verifies the flagged concern and deactivates the access (currently there's no reported timeline for doing so). FULL ARTICLE @ ZD NET

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