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By Adam Gorley | 2 Minutes Read July 26, 2013

BYOD: is personal information visible over corporate networks?

Employers are increasingly drafting and implementing bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies for their employees. And they should be, since employees are increasingly using their personal digital devices—phones, tablets, laptops—to perform work, both in and out of the workplace. But employees may have trouble trusting their employers to stay out of their personal information...

Article by Adam Gorley / Employee Relations, Payroll, Privacy / bring your own device, BYOD, BYOD policy, canadian employment law, collection of personal information, corporate networks, email, employee personal information, Employee privacy rights, employee trust, employment law, Information Technology PolicyPro, IT, ITPP, laptops, mobile devices, network access, Network Security, personal information, policies and procedures, portable devices, privacy, Privacy in the workplace, privacy policy, privacy rights, protecting personal information, smartphones, tablet computer

By Occasional Contributors | 4 Minutes Read January 9, 2013

BYOD: Bring your own device is a growing business trend

Since well before Information Technology PolicyPro was first published and for good reasons considering the technologies available at the time, it made sense to restrict devices connected to the corporate network to those owned and controlled by the enterprise and configured by IT. This is no longer the case.

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By Rudner Law, Employment / HR Law & Mediation | 3 Minutes Read June 7, 2012

The risks of BYOD policy

In the “old” days, employees took whatever their employers gave them when it came to cellphones or personal digital assistants. However, the popularity of devices such as Apple and Android smartphones prompted a backlash from staff demanding to use their product of choice. Many employers, seeing a way to reduce costs, invited employees to "bring your own device"...

Article by Rudner Law, Employment / HR Law & Mediation / Employee Relations, Privacy / android, Blackberry, bring your own device, BYOD, BYOD policy, cellphone use, discipline, Employee privacy rights, employee-owned device, employer right to search computers, employer-owned device, employment law, inappropriate material, iPhone, PDA, personal digital asistant, R. v. Cole, right to inspect and search, smartphones, tablet

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