In the US the courts have ruled that e-mail is the property of the
company and so they're entitled to read it. I think that this only
applies to internal e-mail or company-provided external e-mail. I don't
believe that they can read the e-mail from your personal account.
Dries Feys wrote:
>
> It is NOT allowed to read users email ! Do you read your neighbours snail
> mail at home ? Would you like somebody reads your email ? We use here a
> content scanner, so everything that contains movies,... is de facto banned.
> Users can afterwards request to release their email, but we NEVER read
> users or banned mail !!
>
> Dries Feys-Software Engineer
> TVH forklift parts-Thermote & Vanhalst NV
> Driemasten 120-126 -- B-8560 Gullegem-Belgium
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: David W. Chapman Jr. [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, December 29, 2000 5:47 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: how to hide the VNC logo ?
>
> Then do you feel that system administrators are not allowed to check users
> email at the request of management? I would not like being spied on, but
> what you do at work is the property of the business and as you said if you
> don't like their policy just quit. Just having that policy alone usually
> keeps people on task knowing that someone could be watching what they are
> doing.
>
> > I would not work for a company that deemed that sort of thing
> > acceptable,
> > and I would quit if I found my work was being surreptitiously spied
> > upon.
> > I suspect most people feel the same (though some might not have the
> > luxury of being able to quit in protest). I can certainly see why the
> > AT&T
> > developers would not want to be seen as supporting this kind of
> > activity.
> >
>
> It is political, but it shouldn't be. This isn't something that someone in
> the IS department should have to decide over, but management.
>
> > (Hmm, it seems software -is- political. Damn.)
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