Friday, June 8, 2012


Those that are athletically driven may have issues with privacy as the world becomes more digitized. As a personal trainer at a gym in Utah, I had access to the member’s information about health, fitness, gym attendance, address, and phone number. All of this information plus more was stored on the health club database. Information that was not requisite for my job responsibilities was still made accessible. Conversely, information that the billing or the membership department had was not necessary for their job task either.  Although the health club tried to keep personal information of its members private there were leaks in the system and workers knew things they did not need to know. If this is an example of a gym that takes privacy seriously and still has flaws, it’s disheartening to think of what might happen in a corrupt organization with free reign on personal information.

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