At Work: Remote Data Wipes of Workers' Personal Devices Are Rising

You can bring your own device to work -- but don't be surprised if your company erases all of your cat photos.

Remote data wipes of workers' personal phones, tablets and laptops are on the rise, according to Fiberlink Communications, a company that helps companies manage their fleets of mobile devices. Fiberlink's software wiped data from 81,000 devices in the first six months of this year, compared with 51,000 in the last six months of 2013, an analysis of its client database has found. That works out to about three wiped devices a minute, or 450 a day.