A useful warning for employees who use company e-mail systems is not to put any information online that they do not want to appear on the company bulletin board the next day ... or even within a few minutes of its posting.
The warning generally addresses the situation that the company owns the e-mail system. The employee should have no expectation of privacy.
The U.S. Supreme Court recently confirmed that this lack of an employee's expectation of privacy extends to other company-provided communication devices such as cell phones.
Online posting this week of U.S. State Department communiqués is not specifically related to this legal precedent, but apparently anyone writing a report for the State Department or the U.S. military now has to consider how many eyes eventually will see it.
Secretary of State Henry Stimson stated rather infamously in 1929 that "Gentlemen do not read other people's mail."
Stimson was addressing U.S. code-breaking initiatives, but U.S. intelligence operations, of course, have moved way beyond simply reading other people's mail.
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Source: dnj.com
By: Jim Leonhirth
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