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Article #464Re: E-mail Privacy
From: David Hoopes
Date: Fri, 31 May 1991 15:20
Date: Fri, 31 May 1991 15:20
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In article <9tnh_wg@rpi.edu> rodney@sun.ipl.rpi.edu (Rodney Peck II) writes:
>In article <1991May30.203700.25025@amd.com> phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai) writes:
[stuff deleted]
>>But since the sender wrote the memo in the first place, is
>>this really a violation of privacy in the sense that the sender
>>would learn something he didn't already know?
>
>I think so -- since the sender didn't bother to make himself a CC, he's
>really just out of luck. If I fax something to you as my employee and
>throw away the original, can I rummage through your office when you are
>fired to get a copy of the fax? no.
^^
Why not. Assuming that the desk/office are on company property (assume
that the person you faxed works for the same company that you do). What
would keep that persons ex-boss from doing just that. Nothing. It is
done all the time.
We keep the files of ex employees for a long time. I have had reason to
go thru some of them to get information that I needed to complete my work
such as activeation keys, serial numbers, and passwords that where in the
care of the ex-employee. I don't think that anyone can argue that those
things belonged to the company and that I had legitamite need for that
information. What is differant about an inter office memo, fax, or E-Mail?
None. It belongs to the company. If someone has a reason to need something
in that persons old e-mail restore it and go thru it.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!bellcore!uunet!talgras!david From: david@talgras.UUCP (David Hoopes) Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy,comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: E-mail Privacy Message-ID: <86@talgras.UUCP> Date: 31 May 91 15:20:01 GMT References: <15110@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> <1991May30.203700.25025@amd.com> <9tnh_wg@rpi.edu> Reply-To: david@talgras.UUCP (David Hoopes) Followup-To: comp.admin.policy Distribution: usa Organization: Tallgrass Technologies Inc. Lines: 37