What are the expectations of people who send employees/friends emails as to privacy? In this case, the employer told the employee to discontinue "personal" conversations with me, and to relay this information to me. I wasn't aware they were reading their employee emails, had never been notified by this in any way -- despite having provided some freelance work for them in the past and could be considered a vendor. No written or otherwise implied contract existing. If they were also going to read my emails, shouldn't I and anyone else also have been made aware of their policies and in failing to do so, can they use any information I considered to be private and confidential against me? Or are they in violation of the law in any way? I haven't been able to find anything related to this on the internet.

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