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- From: exuptr@exu.ericsson.se (exuptr@exu.ericsson.se)
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- Subject: Re: Article on E-mail Privacy/Snooping
- Keywords: Corporate Computing, September 1992
- Message-ID: <exuptr.492.716163633@exu.ericsson.se>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 22:20:33 GMT
- References: <1992Sep9.121142.4840@ms.uky.edu> <1992Sep9.231718.1863@PacBell.COM> <1992Sep10.190922.900@dcatlas.dot.gov>
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- In article <1992Sep10.190922.900@dcatlas.dot.gov> joet@dcatlas.dot.gov (Joe Trott) writes:
- >>Apparently when Wang resigned, his MCI Mail account was closed. According
- >>to the paper, MCI Mail saves messages for five days and then deleted. All
- >>these came to light when a staff worker was closing the account and "looked"
- >>into Wang's account and was suprised on the contents of the messages. This
- >>started court orders to search offices/residences on both parties.
-
- >>Question: did the staff worker have the RIGHT to read Wang's email?
- >>When I close accounts, I tar everything to tape and then remove everything.
- >>I don't have time to read user's files or email that is still in queue.
-
- >No, he did *not* have the right (unless a prior contract specified otherwise)
- >to view Wang's email. He should be prosecuted, found as guilty as he is,
- >and treated as harshly as possible. That said, the evidence that Wang was
- >involved in crimes of his own *exists*. It cannot be ignored. Two wrongs
- >do not make a right. Wang should also be tried, convicted, and probably
- >shot ("if you don't like the consequences of your actions...").
-
- That all depends. If the company paid for the mail account, then the mail
- is *not* Wang's personal property, it is the company's, by implicit contract
- and also IMHO by moral standards. The company has put it there for their
- benefit, not Mr Wang's personal use or anything else.
-
- I agree with you that Wang should be tried in either case.
-
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