, 2006-07-31
Even with a well-heeled corporate privacy policy stating that all employee communications may be monitored in the workplace, the legality of e-mail monitoring is not as clear cut as one might think.
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E-mail privacy in the workplace
2006-08-02
Craig S Wright (2 replies)
Craig S Wright (2 replies)
If you work for a corporation then you are acting as an agent for that entity. Therefore any communication you make on behalf of that entity (e-mail, fax, voice, video) is in fact the corporation's property.
So why in the world would anyone expect privacy in the workplace? Well because we read are "personal" e-mail on the company computer, that is why...
Of course this little problem can be rectified with a policy that says no personal use of company equipment with a few lines of what happens if you do.
Just think for a minute about what would happen if the company was not allowed to analyze the data that was being transmitted to/from their network...no IPS/IDS, no firewalls, no SPAM filters, no syslogs. All of these devices analyze data in some way or another and are necesary in todays networks.
Just think about needing a SPAMMERS consent (two party consent) to filter their e-mails...
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