On 6/9/2013 2:26 PM, Rob McEwen wrote: > There are notable exceptions... for example, an employer is really the > owner of the mailbox, not their employee. Therefore, there is an > argument that government employees don't have "privacy rights" from the > government for their official work e-mail accounts. There are probably > several other exceptions like that. But such exceptions are a tiny > percentage of the whole.
I should mention... there also "exceptions to the exceptions". While it is totally legal and ethical for a boss to snoop on his employee's e-mails (in a business), I would think it would be very unethical and illegal, for example, for the executive branch to snoop on a congressional aide's e-mail, to gain "intel" on political opponents.... even if that congressional aide were a government employee and the e-mail was a ".gov" address. But I'm not sure where those lines are drawn with regards to the US Federal Government. -- Rob McEwen http://dnsbl.invaluement.com/ r...@invaluement.com +1 (478) 475-9032
