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In recent news, a French researcher traveling to a conference in Texas had his laptop seized by the US authorities, for reasons that are not well explained. It seems that the number of similar cases has increased at the US border.
If a company laptop was ceased by the US customs, this will objectively represent a security breach and threaten the confidentiality of our clients' data. Consultants have to have a local copy of some dataset (like production data, energy related info... ) from facilities to perform analysis on their computer.
I am considering issuing a warning to all our employees about this, but I am wondering if some of you have recommendations regarding this: - technical measures to limit our exposure. We use encrypted disks, can the border officer force you to provide the password / encryption key? - legal measures to protect the confidentiality of data from US-based companies. Can the federal government seized confidential data from US-based companies just because it crosses the border?
Thanks for your help!
I am the CTO of a small Canadian company (20 employees) that develop data platforms for industrial energy management and lean manufacturing. I am confident we offer meaningful and interesting problems to work on and we don't have a problem finding candidates to recruit. However, we don't really any policy in place to reward people that stay at the company on the long run, beyond money, and we are looking at changing this. As a result, I am curious to know what retention policies are in place in your workplace, especially for companies of similar size ?
Some examples: - gain x days of vacations after y years - working from abroad up to x days per years (we have a lot of foreigners in the team) - ...
What are the things, beyond job satisfaction and salary, that can make it harder to leave your company?