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Title: One Third of large companies read your email
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Reuters
URL Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060602 ... u=X3oDMTA3cjE0b2MwBHNlYwM3Mzg-
Published: Jun 3, 2006
Author: NA
Post Date: 2006-06-03 01:34:39 by Mekons4
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Views: 110
Comments: 5
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Big Brother is not only watching but he is also reading your e-mail. According to a new study, about a third of big companies in the United States and Britain hire employees to read and analyze outbound e-mail as they seek to guard against legal, financial or regulatory risk. More than a third of U.S. companies surveyed also said their business was hurt by the exposure of sensitive or embarrassing information in the past 12 months, according to the annual study from a company specializing in protecting corporate e-mail at large businesses. "What folks are concerned about is confidential or sensitive information that is going out," said Gary Steele, chief executive of Cupertino, California-based Proofpoint Inc., which conducted the study along with Forrester Research. The top concern was protecting the financial privacy and identity of customers followed by compliance issues and a bid to prevent confidential leaks. Businesses ranked monitoring for inappropriate content and attachments as less important. Steele also said on Friday that more and more companies are employing staff to read outgoing e-mails of workers who typically have no idea their correspondence is being monitored. "It is not something that is broadcast," Steele said. "There are organizations where employees think they can say whatever they want to say and nobody is going to read it." The survey gathered responses concerning e-mail security from 406 companies in the United States and the United Kingdom with more than 1,000 employees. In both regions, 38 percent of respondents said they employed staff to read or otherwise analyze outbound e-mail. In the United States, 44 percent of companies with more than 20,000 employees said they hire workers to snoop on workers' e-mail. Nearly one in three U.S. companies also said they had fired an employee for violating e-mail policies in the past 12 months and estimated that about 20 percent of outgoing e-mails contain content that poses a legal, financial or regulatory risk.
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#1. To: Mekons4 (#0)
Okay, for starters, if you're sending e-mails to people who are not employed where you work, you're not working when you send them, you're fucking around on the job. I have no sympathy for that shit. More importantly, nobody should get bent out of shape if their employer is reading their e-mails because if you're sending e-mails on the company's dime, it's THEIR e-mail. Dead Constitution? Hardly. Try more like Cry Me A Damned River.
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#2. To: TommyTheMadArtist (#1)
I disagree. Just as one should be able to phone home and check on the kids, one should be able to send say a short confirmation message of say a doctor's appointment and things like that. This is an invasion of privacy and if I knew where I worked was doing this I don't care how much I liked the job, I'd quit.
#3. To: Mekons4 (#0)
People should always assume that their company emails are being read (or could be read). I saw evidence of that myself. No biggie to me as I only use private email addresses (non-company) if I have to send private messages, and my company is so screwed up that they could never figure out anything anyway.
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#4. To: Ferret Mike (#2)
I still disagree. Your home e-mail, is your private e-mail. When you're on the company dime, you shouldn't be e-mailing a bunch of people in the first place. It's different if it's intercompany but if you're e-mailing people all over the place, expect to be scrutinized.
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#5. To: TommyTheMadArtist (#4)
I respect your POV, but if my e mail was read and I knew about it, regardless of this being at work I'd quit.
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