On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 10:30:17AM +1000, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote:
> Someone in our company used the email account to send some of
> our propriety information to another person and stated in the
> email to store it "somewhere safely".
> When the person left (we stopped the person to login again) we
> secured the homw directory and found all this mail
> Now:
>
> * what can we do?
> * who do we contact?
the only thing to do is to contact a lawyer before you do anything else.
the fact that the proprietary information was stolen with the aid of a
computer should make little or no difference (except that they were too
stupid to delete their sent-mail folder and left evidence behind), theft
is theft and the law has been dealing with these sorts of situations for
years.
i am not a lawyer, the above is just my uninformed opinion and is not
legal advice.
> * do we need to inform the persons next employer who
> is a client of ours (they use it regulary too)
contact a lawyer, and be careful what you do and say here - even if what
you say is true, you may end up liable for libel or slander especially
if your intent is to harm the reputation of the ex-employee (which would
probably be easy to prove if you go around dobbing him/her in to the new
employer).
craig
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