Value (ethics and social sciences)

• Newsweek's ranking of the 2023 Most Loved Workplaces® recognizes companies that have created a workplace where employees feel respected, inspired, and appreciated and are at the center of the business model.
• Veritiv was also recently named to Fortune Magazine's 2023 World's Most Admired Companies™ List.
• Veritiv has been certified as a Top 100 Most Loved Workplace® because it embraces a team-oriented approach to shaping success for employees, customers, and suppliers.
• Employees love working at Veritiv because they work with encouraging individuals, who foster inclusivity and feel supported by leadership.

• The full report, titled “Understanding the Next Generation of Consumers: A Gen Z Snapshot,” is available here .
• Investment opportunities exist across a number of key industries to better serve Gen Z, according to Battery.
• Specifically, 70% of Gen Zers try to purchase from companies they consider ethical, and 90% believe companies must act on social and environmental issues.
• Health & well-being: Mental health is a priority; 37% of Gen Zers have received treatment from a mental-health professional.

• Laserfiche — the leading SaaS provider of intelligent content management and business process automation — has been named a Customers’ Choice in the 2023 Gartner Peer Insights ‘Voice of the Customer’: Content Services Platforms report for the fourth consecutive year.
• Gartner Peer Insights, a free peer review and ratings platform, is designed for enterprise software and services decision makers.
• The business value that our customers create using Laserfiche products inspires us.”
  According to Gartner, “Content services platforms (CSPs) are foundational for managing and utilizing content within an organization.
• CSP technologies enable employees to retrieve and work with content in a modern and seamless way across devices and organizational boundaries.

FTC Path case helps app developers stay on the right, er, path

• In the few years it’s been up and running, Path has billed itself as a different kind of social network.  According to a description of its "Values," "Path should be private by default.  Forever.  You should always be in control of your information and experience.
• "  It’s a lovely sentiment.  Except that according to an FTC law enforcement action, it wasn’t private by default.  It wasn’t private forever.  Users weren’t in control of their information and experience.  And let’s not forget the alleged violation of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act.
• In addition to the just-released staff report, Mobile Privacy Disclosures: Building Trust through Transparency, and a new brochure, Mobile App Developers: Start with Security (more about those in our next post), the FTC's settlement with Path offers a lot for the app industry to consider.  Path — primarily available to users through a mobile app — calls itself a "smart journal that helps you share life with the ones you love.
• In version 2.0 of the Path App for iOS, the company included a new “Add Friends” feature that offered users three choices: "Find friends from your contacts," "Find friends from Facebook," and "Invite friends to join Path by email or SMS.
• And according to the FTC, it wasn’t a one-time thing.  The automatic collection of information from the address book occurred the first time users launched version 2.0 of the Path App and, if they signed out of the service, each time they signed in again.  The practice continued until February 8, 2012.
• Four key points businesses can take from the Path settlement:


Join us on Twitter from 1:00-2:00 ET on Friday, February 1, 2013, talk about the Path case and the Report.  Follow @FTC and submit questions with the hashtag #FTCpriv.