[BUGS] Assumed Privacy of E-Mails?

[Rhycel Cris]

I assume that the company owns the mail server and they pay for everything
for the maintenance of the server. then they can do anything they want with
it
including all the users mailboxes.

:)

On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Jerahmy Pocott <quakenet1 at optusnet.com.au>
wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> Not a technical question here, not really bsd specific, but since many
> people here admin mail servers and such..
>
> The question is about the privacy expectations of assumptions of your
> e-mail, okay so we all know that anything you send in the clear over
> the internet is pretty much not private, but we also pretty much
> expect that only the recipients are going to read our mail, right?
>
> Now what about a company account? Do you expect mails sent or received
> via a company address to be private? Some companies I'v worked for
> have had clauses in their employee agreements like "while your company
> address is private, your mail may be viewed by system administrators
> inadvertently and will be surrendered if by court order" etc etc.. But
> others have had nothing.
>
> Obviously I'm not a lawyer and don't really know the legal ins and
> outs of it, but if you haven't got them to sign an agreement and you
> went and read their mail or made it available to others or even just
> printed a list of the addresses they had sent or received mail to/from
> that would be some sort of violation of privacy?
>
> Any thoughts or comments? (I'm not worried about being sued, more
> concerned about protecting the users from illegal privacy violations
> by the big wigs =p)
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