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An alternate, but maybe not more plausible explanation, is that the employee sent the email on the Google office network and the traffic was being logged anyway
by brown9-2 13y ago
An alternate, but maybe not more plausible explanation, is that the employee sent the email on the Google office network and the traffic was being logged anyway.
- darklajid 13y agoThe employee used a non-google account according to the article. Are you saying that it's 'normal' that companies log everything going out over smtp/submission and log it? Even if that is - legal (really?) - part of the contract (no idea why that'd be okay) that sounds like something you shouldn't do, period. I'm reasonably sure that this would never work in Europe, for example.
- wmf 13y agoIn the US you should assume a company examines/logs everything over their network, not just email. There's a whole "data loss prevention" industry.
- brown9-2 13y agoNormal? I have no idea. Possible? Certainly.
- abandonliberty 13y agoLegal, doesn't have to be part of the contract (though I'm sure it helps) http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/email-monitoring-can-employer-read-30088.html http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/email-monitoring-can-...
- thrownaway2424 13y agoIt is both legal and required by US law. If a company doesn't have a "system of record" that keeps track of all emails generated by employees, the company can lose their defenses against a wide array of possible legal troubles.
- Guvante 13y agoYour email is sitting on a machine that they have full permission to. Their EULA explicitly gives them permission to access your account (often for any reason). Also typically you do those kind of correspondences from home.