IMG GlobalSecur Announces New Post on Privacy and Employee Travel Safety Apps

NEW YORK, October 1, 2019 (Newswire.com) - IMG GlobalSecur, a leading international travel security consulting firm at http://www.theimg.com/, is proud to announce a new post on privacy and travel safety apps on its FoneTrac website. The post highlights some of the important issues HR managers face when selecting a best-in-class travel security app for employee security including itinerary monitoring. Most businesses and HR managers must be transparent when it comes to privacy issues in contrast to government agencies and law enforcement personnel who face a different institutional environment.

"The privacy relationship between employer and employee needs to be transparent," explained Chris Hagon, CEO of IMG GlobalSecur. "Our new post highlights some of the different issues that government agencies face when dealing with international travel vs. employers who are seeking a 'win/win' and transparent travel security app solution that is also mindful of privacy concerns." In fact, he continued, "FoneTrac is purposely designed to be 'user-driven.' This means that the App and backend are unaware of a traveler’s exact location unless they press the 'Check-In' or 'Panic Alert' button."

What this means is that the app is “position-locating” rather than “travel monitoring," providing a happy medium between employee privacy concerns and the technical needs of the app to be able to help in the event of a security concern. This innovative feature has propelled FoneTrac to be one of the most popular travel security and itinerary monitoring apps for employees in the ecosystem.

To view the new post on travel security and privacy concerns, please visit the FoneTrac blog post at https://www.fonetrac-go.com/blog/2019/09/employee-travel-security-app/.  Persons who want a robust overview of the features of the travel security app can visit https://www.fonetrac-go.com/travel-security/ and those who would like to know more about the GlobalSecur backend can visit http://www.globalsecur.com/. HR managers and employers are encouraged to reach out for a demo, as demos are available on the FoneTrac travel security app, as are one-on-one consultations. Journalists and bloggers are encouraged to reach out to the company for commentary on emerging privacy trends vis-a-vis international travel security.

PRIVACY AND SECURITY NEED NOT BE IN CONFLICT

Here is the background of this release. Employees and international business travelers are increasingly concerned about privacy while traveling. The Chinese government, for example, is facing criticism about their "social credit" system which relies heavily on technology and plays quite loose with citizen privacy. Even the U.S. government is using biometric and facial-recognition technology at points of entry, and the post references external discussions about the efficacy and ethics of these efforts. Finally, when it comes to technology, social media giants like Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, and Google are facing more and more criticism about how they use user data. For these reasons, HR managers and employers can be confounded when, on the one hand, they need to improve employee travel security and itinerary monitoring software and yet, on the other hand, they do not want to run afoul of employee concerns about privacy. For these reasons, IMG GlobalSecur is announcing a new post to their blog on travel security app privacy issues and encouraging HR managers or employers to reach out for a consultation. With some foresight, a happy medium can be found between privacy and security for international employee travel. 

ABOUT THE INCIDENT MANAGEMENT GROUP (IMG)

Incident Management Group is a leading international security consulting firm. Corporate or business organizations concerned about their need for robust travel security solutions can reach out to the IMG Group for assistance. The company’s experts provide services such as executive, employee, VIP, and expatriate travel security, workplace safety, duty of care management, risk and threat assessments, workplace violence prevention, crisis management planning, supply chain security, and more.

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Source: IMG GlobalSecur