Social Media Sites and Data Leaks

I noticed this headline and survey today at Clearswift:

Survey Shows Organizations Susceptible to Data Leaks through Social Media Sites

Growing popularity of Web 2.0 sites put corporate information at risk and drains productivity

Survey Results highlights:

·  87 percent of office workers access Web 2.0 sites each week, with 63 percent accessing the sites one or more times a day;

·  51 percent of office workers spend one or more hours a week using and accessing Web 2.0 sites when at work;

·  46 percent of office workers have discussed work-related issues on social media websites;

·  71 percent of office workers use Web-based email at work for personal reasons; and

· 50 per cent of office workers believe that employees should be entitled to access Web 2.0 Internet content from their work computer for personal reasons.