Trade Secrets: Losing Your Trade Secrets at a High Altitude

Let me say, I hate flying. Which may be why I never thought of the problem The Workplace Privacy Counsel writes about in Is Confidential Business Information Safe At 30,000 Feet?.

Before business executives start using on-board Internet access to conduct business, employers should examine the risks that this latest wave of technological conveniences creates. Bear in mind that the risks will include not just the possible inadvertent disclosure of confidential business information but also, for example, the possible continued storage of that information on the airline’s e-mail servers and the possible increased risk of interception during transmission. Once the service and the attendant risks are better understood, employers can modify existing electronic resources policies, or prepare new policies, to address the most recent risk to privacy in the wired business world.

Those flying more than me (which is a great percentage of the world's population) need to evaluate how you do business while in the air.