>Why is this a revelation or surprise? Your employer provides you with equipment and applications not for their benefit, not yours, and I think this is perfectl

>Why is this a revelation or surprise? Your employer provides you with equipment and applications not for their benefit, not yours, and I think this is perfectly reasonable. A draft is a window into what someone was thinking before they edited or censored their thoughts. Even when people have been notified they don't own the equipment and nothing is private, they generally rely on not being that closely monitored that they can be held responsible for a message they didn't send to anyone. Google themselves got screwed in court in precisely that scenario, where there were autosaved drafts of some emails that showed what execs were thinking prior to the actual sending of a message. It was ruled valid to produce, but that doesn't mean that everyone has to agree that's fair. If the top people at Google think that composing an email is private, I think that's a pretty good hint that it is typical on planet Earth, even if it's not actually true. If you are going to avoid revealing your thoughts while composing a document, then you would have to do it on some other system and only transmit the final version. That's somewhere from cumbersome to infeasible, and people just don't do it. It seems approximately equivalent to the expectation of privacy in the restroom at work, to me.