Personally I put zero value in the "this information is confidential" statements. It's a joke. Just because someone puts that tag at the bottom of the email doesn't mean that I have to agree to it. I signed no paper saying I wouldn't share any of the information. It's no more than someone asking you to keep a secret, it's up to you.
Long story... We were contacted a few months ago by a contract service company asking us to do some work at a local factory. Inventory their IT equipment and backup the configuration on all the Cisco routers for a baseline on a new service contract. They asked if we were Cisco Certified and I said no but we could do the work easily. They emailed over all the info and at the bottom was the Confidential tag. The factory turned out to have the IT department ran by a friend of mine. The info had the factories requirements and one was that all work be performed by Cisco Certified techs. Red flag... I tell them again, we aren't certified. They come back, just pretend. ???? Again, all emails are "Confidential". So I gave up and contacted my pal at the factory and forwarded all the emails. Told him they were trying to pull a fast one. Service company goes ape and threatens me with "legal action" for sharing the info with their client. Again, "Confidential". I forwarded that to my pal yet again and also CC'd the service company. I signed no agreement to confidentiality or even verbally agreed to anything of the sort. It takes 2 to keep a secret and both have to agree. I never did. Realizing that I'm a nut with morals who doesn't give a damn about threats and they can't scare a nut with a morals, they backed off and went away. My pal also dropped them for breach of contract. The company is Seaboard Communications. They were actually contracted by the ORIGINAL contractor, Continuant whom my buddy signed the service agreement with. Another layer of B.S.... Their "Legal" crap is at the bottom of their emails is shaded grey. "LEGAL NOTICE: This e-mail message and all attachments transmitted with it are intended solely for the use of the addressee and may contain legally privileged and confidential information. You are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, copying, or other use of this message or its attachments is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by replying to this message and please delete it from your computer. C 2004-2009. Seaboard Communication, www.seaboardcommunication.com All rights reserved" I love that, "Please delete it from your computer". Right. They were deleted all right. Bob- -----Original Message----- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Lists Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 10:52 PM To: 'WISPA General List' Subject: [WISPA] How Priviliged are Emails? We see these footers stating "this information is confidential" or "if you get this email by mistake." I personally like that one, if you do not who you are sending it to.tough luck. What if there is no 'disclaimer' on a string of emails? No, in confidential comment, can that be repeated? In Missouri we actually can record a voice conversation without informing the other party! I always thought that there had to be that beep warning letting you know.watch out. Recently my conversation was recorded, I know because I kept hearing feedback, come on if you are going to do it do it right. Frankly, I did not care because I wanted my position documented and them being able to rewind and rewind. But imagine this rule and compare it to email. It is hard to do since these rules are regulated on a state level, whereas email is regulated on a federal level. But what say you WISPA, if an email does not have a "confidentiality notice" is it considered privileged? Victoria Proffer www.StLouisBroadband.com 314-974-5600 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
