[anigbrowl]

If you're that worried about it send an email to the union and claim an hour of pro-bono consultancy on your tax return. I don't know your motivations but this looks awfully like concern trolling.

Incidentally I'm not a union member, nor have I ever been. I just find it really odd to see a firm like Walmart being so 'concerned' about the security of their employees while at the same time shoving all sorts of electronic gadgets at their customers without the slightest murmur about the security issues. Does Walmart give the same kind of security advice to customers or employees who purchase smartphones? If not, then why would I take their sudden concern at face value here?

[VLM]

Its interesting that my concerns were very specifically in defense of walmart owned property, but you describe them very specifically as security of their employees. And then wander off in customer land.

Perhaps giving away large amounts of PII in this app or getting into the habit of giving away PII for the asking puts the employees at risk, but my theoretical examples only put walmart owned property at risk. Well, any employee involved would probably get fired as the fall guy or there's some obscure binder miles away with a written policy forbidding my scenarios, but ...

"sudden concern" Is it a sudden concern? I work at a very large corporation and every six months or so we get a refresher course in not being social engineered etc. Its a sudden concern of us, of some news organizations. Opposition to social engineering attacks is probably not a recent sudden concern of walmart infosec department, they've been around the block a bit and a company doesn't get that big entirely staffed by noobs.