[1979] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Monitor an E-mail server
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kendall Clark)
Thu Oct 31 04:06:40 1996
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 02:58:38 -0600
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From: Kendall Clark <kclark@computek.net>
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At 12:01 AM 10/31/96 -0800, you wrote:
>On Thu, 31 Oct 1996, Robert Hart wrote:
>
>> As far as capturing random messages is concerned, here in Australia at
>> least that is an invasion of privacy, *even* if the mail system and all
>> its parts is owned by the employer, who also owns the connection to the
>> Internet. Don't know about the USA laws though...
>
>In the USA it's legal for a company to monitor the e-mail of its
>employees.
Since we're talking about legality, I'd make one small change to this:
it's legal for a company to monitor the e-mail of its employees _when that
e-mail exists on, is processed through or by, or is facilitated by the
employer's computer equipment_. Your employer, in other words, can only
monitor your email when it's their computers you're using to create, read,
or transmit it. Private email is still private when it resides or is
created or read by your own computer.
Best,
Kendall G. Clark
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