, 2006-10-31
Mark Rasch looks at two recent court cases where an employee's reasonable expectation of privacy was more important than the employer's ability to read any employee's e-mail - despite a privacy policy that clearly stated any company e-mail can, and will, be monitored.
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Employee Privacy, Employer Policy
2006-11-13
Anonymous (2 replies)
Anonymous (2 replies)
1st - an employess' network and email password is not for the purpose of protecting the employee, but rather to protect the assets (including digital) of the company. An employee is expected to maintain and protect that PW just like any other company asset. That employee is granted access and that access is governed by ID log on. This is protecting the company assets. Should a data access violation occur, it can be traced back to the ID.
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In all cases I've seen, the net access, Internet use and email policy is agreed to by signing the form. All employees agree to this. All understand the "rules". There is nothing stated as to how often the company needs to exercise this policy. If an employee "ASSUMES" something our of context, well assume says it all.
Mr Rasch mentioned common sense. I'm sure all the lawyers out there can twist this situation into anything they want, but the facts are facts.
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