#94245 - 05/10/07 02:34 AM
Re: employers monitor employees personal email?
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If it is your laptop and the internet connection is your own wireless connection to somewhere outside of the building, then they have no way of monitoring. If you are passing the e-mail over their wires to your internet provider, then it passes through their firewall and they can monitor it. Since you are using their wires, it is legal for them to monitor.
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#94248 - 05/10/07 02:49 AM
Re: employers monitor employees personal email?
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Are you doing work for the company on that machine? If so, they might, depending on what you were doing- that's a talk to a lawyer question, not a free advice question. But if you use their computer and/or thier connection, then yes, they have every right to monitor that. The same way they have every right to require you to maintain a mileage log and justify every mile if you use a company vehicle, or to inspect every purchase made with a company credit card.
Personally, my machines don't do work stuff, I don't even check work email at home. Heck, they pay for my beeper, but only they have the number.
Picard, do you have a reason to be asking a guilty conscious-type question?
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#94249 - 05/10/07 02:50 AM
Re: employers monitor employees personal email?
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Registered: 08/14/06
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TO Gatormba....... if you pose naked, say something aginst the boss or the company and so on, I saw it in the news one time and the judge said that it was fair game.
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#94271 - 05/10/07 11:32 AM
Re: employers monitor employees personal email?
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All e-mail is insecure. For general privacy issues, I recommend reading "How To Be Invisible" by J.J. Luna Canary Islands Press The questions and comments section on this website is particularly revealing.
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#94316 - 05/10/07 08:02 PM
Re: employers monitor employees personal email?
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Certainly they can. I work in Compliance from the brokerage industry and we are Required by the SEC and NASD to review registered employees emails on a regular basis and to be able to produce all emails for a period of 5 years.
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#94341 - 05/11/07 01:32 AM
Re: employers monitor employees personal email?
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Are you doing work for the company on that machine? If so, they might, depending on what you were doing- that's a talk to a lawyer question, not a free advice question. But if you use their computer and/or thier connection, then yes, they have every right to monitor that. The same way they have every right to require you to maintain a mileage log and justify every mile if you use a company vehicle, or to inspect every purchase made with a company credit card.
Personally, my machines don't do work stuff, I don't even check work email at home. Heck, they pay for my beeper, but only they have the number.
Picard, do you have a reason to be asking a guilty conscious-type question? oh moi? What makes you think I have guilty conscience? I am as clean as boyscout !  I am just want to arm myself with legal knowledge.
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#94379 - 05/11/07 01:25 PM
Re: employers monitor employees personal email?
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I am just want to arm myself with legal knowledge. Assuming you are serious I think you'll find that an internet message board is a pretty bad place to seek legal advice. That probably goes for medical advice as well.
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#94464 - 05/12/07 03:18 AM
Re: employers monitor employees personal email?
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Plus, if you were goofing off doing personal e-mails or whatever on company time, I doubt that you would have a foot to stand on, legally speaking. Seems to me that you are being paid to produce for the boss, not do personal stuff. I think that I would want to stay as far away from a legal battle as I could...
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