, 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)
To a phone CO technician, looking at an analog signal travelling through a switch to troubleshoot it doesn't mean that said tech can actually know the exact verbal contents of a given phone call. Email is a bit different, in that you can see exactly what's in a given mail just by opening the queue (unless its encrypted, but most aren't).
I have a sinking feeling that the idea of equating email to phone conversations may have been an easy idea law-wise, but that it's going to really wreck things as time goes on.
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