Wal-Mart Tells Workers: Don’t Download Labor Group’s Chat App
Just to play devil&#x27;s advocate here, this is from the article:<p>&gt; The app, called WorkIt, invites users to register by providing a name, email, telephone number and ZIP Code. Users can also s hare (sic) their job title and Wal-Mart store number....<p>That is a bunch of personally identifying information. You can easily steal somebody&#x27;s identity with those bits of information, or at least have a good idea of who they are. I see how Walmart&#x27;s corporate line is at least somewhat believable upon further thought.<p>And there has been no disclosure on how they&#x27;re storing this information. Are they storing it on AWS&#x2F;GCE&#x2F;Azure or Linode? Or do they have their own locked down racks that safeguard this information?<p>Look, I&#x27;m not saying that there&#x27;s anything malicious about this, or the Walmart isn&#x27;t trying to bust worker collaboration. But, in today&#x27;s security conscious world, you really should ask these questions when you&#x27;re requesting PII to sign up to your app.<p>And malice vs carelessness doesn&#x27;t matter when your personal information is leaked all over the web.