Outsourcing Privacy (Book Excerpts)

Outsourcing Privacy (Book Excerpts)

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Curious about outsourcing privacy? Our book, “Outsourcing Through RentACoder” explains it all. Below are a few selected snippets that describe its importance and why you, as an outsourcer, should care.

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Excerpts:

• To protect both its employers (buyers) and its contract workers (coders), RentACoder’s (h) privacy statement address how the company’s legal department handles these issues and more. (page 51)
• If you take a real look at the type of customer data your business handles on a day-to-day basis for example, you might be surprised at how tremendously private that data really is. Some information should be kept private at all costs – including the costs of not outsourcing. (page 104)
• We’ve been working through RentACoder for years now, and have never experienced a privacy breach or case of stolen identity through its services. (page 119)
• Looks pretty good, doesn’t it? We’ll show you how to privatize your bid requests a little later on. (page 122)
• Google Docs37 provides privatized storage for the most common types of documents (Word documents, RTFs, HTMLs or text files, PDFs, zips,.ppt or.pps files, etc.) and it organizes those documents into folders much like the way your computer stores and organizes your personal files. (page 132)
• A terminated contract isn’t grounds for sharing private material, so a nondisclosure or confidentiality agreement should additionally prevent information sharing even after a contract has ended. (page 159)
• And if you want to keep your bid requests private (or if you have to keep your bid requests private for work reasons), check the “Auto-privatize my open-auction bid requests” option as well. (page 173)
• If you want to outsource work to known, highly skilled coders with a proven track record, tick the Private or One-on-One /Enhancement Auction option. (page 187)
• What if we wanted 1,000 five hundred word articles in 2 weeks?? What if we wanted someone to write about something private — in our offices – something that only we would know? (page 223)
• Again, whenever a coder posts a comment regarding your bid request, RentACoder will forward that comment to your email’s inbox. Click the link inside the email message to access all private messages between you and the responding coder. (page 269)
• We won’t participate in RentACoder’s Pay for Time approach for privacy reasons, and we suspect a large number of other coders won’t participate in this approach for the same reason. (page 283)
• RentACoder simply cannot verify a conversation when communication is taken off-site onto something like private email or instant messaging. (page 321)
• Should you insist on submitting a private message to the arbitrator, and should the arbitrator determine your message should have been sent to the coder as well, the arbitrator will make your post available to the coder and chastise you for not following the rules. (page 336)
• The typical “terms of service” and “privacy policy” are prime examples. Unless you want something that’s entertaining (or worse, absolutely irrelevant), we suggest that you refrain from deviating from what’s considered the norm. (page 375)

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