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Judge Says Employer Can Dig Through Employee's E-mail (article)

From: "saundrakaerubel.com" <saundrakae AT saundrakaerubel.com>
To: gracenet AT yahoogroups.com
Subject: Judge Says Employer Can Dig Through Employee's E-mail (article)
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 12:31:31 -0500

Hi:

Of interest to many out there:

"Judge Says Employer Can Dig Through Employee's E-mail
An employer's decision to dig through an employee's e-mails in
computer storage does not violate any federal or state wiretap laws -- not
even the "Stored Communications Act" -- since all of the laws are
triggered only when the interception occurs "in the course of
transmission," a federal judge has ruled. In her 44-page opinion in Fraser
v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co., U.S. District Judge Anita B. Brody
found that wiretap laws do not cover retrieval of a person's e-mail from
"post-transmission storage."
Read the article: law.com @
http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZ4BS1MVKC
Further reading on GigaLaw.com: Company E-mail and Internet Policies
@ http://www.gigalaw.com/articles/gall-2000-01-p1.html "

Saundra, Filtered By Many

Judge Says Employer Can Dig Through Employee's E-mail (article), saundrakaerubel.com, 03/29/2001