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- From: klee@wsl.dec.com (Ken Lee)
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- Subject: Re: email privacy laws
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 21:11:15 GMT
- Organization: DEC Western Software Laboratory
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- While there are several laws protecting electronic information
- communication, these usually do not protect employees from their
- employers. Companies generally have the right to search company
- property at any time. This includes searching e-mail files stored
- on company-owned computer systems.
-
- I'm not saying that this is "morally right", just that it is the law.
- There have been several cases recently where employees have been fired
- or sued after employers read through files stored on company hardware.
- There are also a few more infamous cases, such as Oliver North's e-mail
- being used against him or Bush administration staffers being prevented
- (by court order) from erasing e-mail notes before Clinton took over.
-
- --
- Ken Lee
- DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif.
- Internet: klee@wsl.dec.com
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