If you include any confidential information in an email and someone misuses it then you are legally responsible. Your company hopes that maybe by including the message they might not be held responsible also. However, if someone wants to sue because of a disclosure they will sue both you and your company, and try to collect from both.
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And, thinking about it, probably means that *I* will be held legally responsible for any mis-use of information instead of the company. Yet another way to sc**w the worker.
-- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer UICI Insurance Center Applications & Solutions Team +1.817.255.3225
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-----Original Message----- From: Alan Cox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 3:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SCO - more water torture
On Iau, 2003-07-03 at 21:51, Stephen Frazier wrote:
They have no legal force whatsoever on the recipient. Therefore they do not protect the sender from HIPAA regulations. You are still fully liable under HIPAA for any confidential information you include in an email.
Does save having to argue with corporate legal tho 8)
-- Stephen Frazier Information Technology Unit Oklahoma Department of Corrections 3400 Martin Luther King Oklahoma City, Ok, 73111-4298 Tel.: (405) 425-2549 Fax: (405) 425-2554 Pager: (405) 690-1828 email: stevef%doc.state.ok.us
