// COMPLETE THREAD

e-mail, business and privicy

3 expanded posts ยท every known parent and child

NODE 0518425be-mail, business and privicy
An old subject, but could someone please give me a pointer 
to the legalities of reading other peoples mail in the working 
environment.

Many thanks,	

-------------------------------------------
 |   "Computers are boring and slow."    |                     
 |                                       |
 | 	David Wood                       |
 |      Information Systems Specialist?  |
 |  	wood@vax2.rockhurst.edu          |
-------------------------------------------
NODE 9fc35428Re: e-mail, business and privicy
> 
> An old subject, but could someone please give me a pointer 
> to the legalities of reading other peoples mail in the working 
> environment.
> 
> Many thanks,	
> 

Unless otherwise notified, I believe you have a right to 
privacy.  Some companies are up front and make you sign a
piece of paper to the effect that when your at work... 

Here at TeleCheck, we had to sign a piece of paper that promised
that we wouldn't read each *other's* mail, after a nasty incident
in which involved an employee and forged mail ardently confessing
is new found homosexuality (boy was be suprised...).  But that
was a long time ago, which predates the notices we had to sign.

The point was clear.  Don't read your supervisor's mail or you will be
terminated (as an employee was). 

-- 
Joe N. Turner		Telecheck International
turner@telecheck.com    5251 Westheimer, PO BOX 4659, Houston, TX 77210-4659
			(800) 888-4922  *   (713) 439-6597
NODE d9c04c5dRe: e-mail, business and privicy
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----

On Fri, 27 Oct 1995 WOOD@VAX2.ROCKHURST.EDU wrote:

> An old subject, but could someone please give me a pointer 
> to the legalities of reading other peoples mail in the working 
> environment.

There is a new O'Reilly book out called _Computer Crime_ that covers the
entire arena in more detail than you'll be likely to ever need.  I hope.

It's decidedly oriented towards the law enforcement community, not
"Computer Folk". Though the title focuses on crime, you'll find what 
you need here. 

===========================================================================
     Henry W. Farkas      |     Me?     Speak for IBM?     Fat chance.
 hfarkas@ims.advantis.com |------------------------------------------------  
   hfarkas@vnet.ibm.com   |     http://www.ims.advantis.com/~hfarkas
      henry@nhcc.com      |          http://www.nhcc.com/~henry 
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
PGP 6.2.2 Key fingerprint: AA D0 F5 44 C1 8C 11 52  B3 80 34 1C CE 38 EC 53
 Public key at: pgp-public-keys@pgp.mit.edu, and other popular key servers.
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Not to worry, we'll just outlaw all unlicensed cryptography.  After all, it
works in France. You don't see weekly terrorist attacks over there any more
now do you ?             - futplex@pseudonym.com -
===========================================================================


-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: 2.6.2
Comment: Auto-signed with Bryce's Auto-PGP v1.0beta

iQCVAwUBMJEgFqDthkLkvrK9AQF6ygP/VdVcox7kvuW7SWZsnHR2QddZuO0Xp60U
Y6VXMR56WwW8EPyJ4iTvIZ44Nqnt8XshQN22ZVLNQopb3uRpY+MQR68scm6YPBt/
4U+VvgOOopfHKTdJSpqJy8n4M1Y5o1UVnAUIL8oNUhQId55BvFK1GzdtsPRqZLYj
58SLD0+ub3U=
=EoR7
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----