In both a recent article published in the Science Daily, as well additional information released in an abstract by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, the topic of risks involved with a record retention policy that includes an individual’s Social Security number was updated to include the dymanics of that risk when combined with the increased use of social networking and other internet activities by those individuals.

Reading this article should cause you to at least review and possibly re-think your company’s policies involving record retention, information security, compliance management, and other components of what your company is doing to guarantee the privacy rights of its employees.