Oct 24 2010 ↓Who Said What
HAMBURG – German companies are banning access to Facebook because of serious security fears.
Fears of industrial espionage and other security concerns are forcing top German companies to block access to Facebook and other social networking sites, the Business weekly Wirtschaftswoche said in an advance copy of its Monday issue.
A representative for the second-biggest bank in Germany, the Commerzbank stated: “Many external social media sites are no longer available to most of our staff due to security concerns.”
Automakers Volkswagen and Porsche, HeidelbergCement, a construction material company, energy group E.ON and industrial gas giant Linde have also stated that like Commerzbank, their employees can also no longer access Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other social networks.
Facebook and other social sites are banned by top German companies.
The companies fear that their employees are able to share trade secrets in chat rooms and get involved in espionage. Furthermore, the companies worry that such sites could expose them to computer viruses transmitted by clicking on a link within someone’s ‘wall’.
Christian Fuchs of anti-virus provider Kaspersky, was quoted as saying: “Before it was email that was the favorite gateway for damaging software — today it is social networks.”
IT security firm Clearswift indicated that 30 percent of German companies fear that social networking sites will distract their employees from work if they have unlimited access. However, a much larger group — 56 percent — cited security concerns as the primary reason to restrict these sites.
The latest German company to ban its employees from accessing social sites at work is world giant Daimler, AKA Mercedes Benz.
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