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["Lori Laubach" <lorilral AT mindspring.com>]

Virtually every employer now has a written policy concerning email usage,
(many companies have separate agreements which employees must sign) stating
that email, voicemail and any other communication is Company property and
subject to review or monitoring at any time without notice.  Sadly, in my
opinion, some of the hottest new products for corporate networks allow
monitoring of our every move on the computer--keystrokes, websites visited
(and for how long), ability to remotely view what's on our screens, alert
designated parties if certain keywords appear in a message...  Obviously,
most companies have no desire or reason to keep employees under
surveillance, but for personal business Roger's advice is dead on--use
private accounts, preferably on personal equipment not used on a corporate
network, for anything  you want to keep private.  Since my shoe size is not
something I care to share with my boss, I order my shoes from Nordstrom
online from home, thank you very much. ;-)
L3

-- Original Message -----
From: "Austin, Roger" <rda AT rti.org>
To: "InterNetWorkers" <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 12:45 PM
Subject: [internetworkers] Re: Judge Says Employer Can Dig Through
Employee'sE-mail (article)


> Employee's email (sent through the corporate system) is owned by the
> employer as far as I know. The corporation can do what ever it wants
> with the messages, including reading them.
>  Does anyone expect their messages through a corporate email system to
> be protected from the corporation? I've always warned people to view
> their email messages as public domain unless they do some fancy
> encryption. I've also warned people to send sensitive personal email
> through personal email accounts rather than the corporation's email
> system.
>  Does anyone have knowledge of legal limits to corporate ownership of
> email messages?
>  Roger (in RTP)
>
> "saundrakaerubel.com" wrote:
> > "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 --
>
> ---
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