Reading employees email is potentially illegal in some countries in the Europe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workplace_privacy#Europe http://en.wikipedia.org/wik

Reading employees email is potentially illegal in some countries in the Europe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workplace_privacy#Europe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workplace_privacy#Europe http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/eiro/2005/10/feature/no0510102f.htm http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/eiro/2005/10/feature/no051010... How that relates to chat is unknown but would probably have to abide by the same laws (IANAL)