I think if you have an acceptable use policy that contains that then you are likely to get your self in a fair amount of trouble. Your employees have a right to a reasonable level of privacy. Do you monitor all their phone conversations as well?
Looking at the background of the amendment its ok to intercept emails when involved in the normal maintenance and operation of the system. So you might be able to have an AUP that explicitly bans the sending of image files, with any image files sent monitored to ensure that your employees are with holding the standards of decency expected in your company. But you can just look at every thing on a whim. Explain what you want to do before hand and why. And have a policy in place that deals with exceptions that does not involve retrenchment. As for jurisdiction, your in NSW your employees are in NSW you would be affected. > From: James Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 21:43:36 +1100 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [SLUG] NSW targets employers' email snooping > > On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 04:38 pm, Howard Lowndes wrote: > *snipped* >> "Unless employers have a court order, they will need to give employees >> notice that surveillance will be conducted," he said. >> >> That could mean a warning box pops up when the computer is turned on. > > We already have a pre-login message on our systems that basically says: > > "You agree to adhere to the acceptable use policy. You understand that > anything and everything you do is logged and monitored and by logging into > this system agree to allow this to occur. If you don't like this, HR will > be happy to receive your resignation." > > I wonder if that's enough? Besides our mail gateway and ms-exchange server > are in Boston, MA, so I guess we aren't exactly in the NSW > jurisdiction....or are we? > > <SOAP_BOX> > I hate all this legal crap - they're lusers for fsck's sake. They aren't > smart enough to know what's best for them....dammit! They want to send > porn to their mates and chew vast amounts of bandwidth on non-work related > crap on MY network and now the government says - sure, that's OK, that's > why you give them Internet access!?! Gaddam!! > </SOAP_BOX> > > Rant over.....back to my beer. > > James > -- > Fortune cookies says: > And now for something completely different. > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
