I don't want to be rude in any way with you Instronics (so I apologize if I seem to be offending) but I think the contrary.Quote:
Kiss cool, i disagree with you there. If its company computers and company work hours that we are talking about (which is the fact in my case), the users are not allowed to send private mails or any kind of package across our network. This is part of our security policy and our users are aware of that. They are not allowed to use the computers of non-work situations. Everything they do on company computers can and will be monitored. So in my situation i do have the rights to read any mail that crosses my router, where its in or out!
I have searched and found an interesting example in France:
A student of the ESPCI in Paris (an engineer school) has abused of his e-mail account harassing another student. As he used the school system and as students didn't have the rights to use e-mail for personal purposes, the persons in charge of the school decided to control this user in a stronger way...
And they have finally been recognised guilt of a violation of the secret of correspondence by the law, simply because they have READ some of those unauthorized e-mails.
A nominative e-mail is protected by the law as if it was a normal mail.
And even if I am not totally sure (I am not an American lawyer), I think that things work in the same way in the USA. I don't know in Greece.
It's what thinks a lot of companies. But as far as I know, it is impossible to drop out his own rights (in a legal point of view). That's why even if an employee is aware to be monitored, even if he had signed an authorization to read his mails, you normally can't.Quote:
It would be illegal if the users were not aware that all access is monitored, which is why we HAVE to make sure that they know this.
Imagine the implications of such a possibility, it would immediately be the return of slavery.
KC
