Is your mobile policy ready for wearables?

• Position: MOBILE - Employers use wearables to monitor employees - Brief article

The next big trend in mobile computing is wearables, such as a Fitbit, the Apple watch, and Google Glass. We're clearly still in the early-adopter phase, but consider how quickly smartphones changed the way people do business.

Like most new technologies, wearables bring both exciting opportunities and serious challenges. While they can put the data within a short glance of the wearer, they can also present privacy and data security concerns.

"Employers would have to address those [concerns] head on, and be prepared to answer an array of questions--for starters, what data will be tracked? How will the data get stored? Who in the organization will have access to it? How will the information be used," warned Alberto Torres, chief executive officer of Atheer Labs, in a recent guest article in ReadWrite.

This is likely to be true for all wearables...