Email Privacy in the Workplace, Term Paper

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The courts have basically given businesses cart blanc with regard to the monitoring of what their employees say and do in their work email as well as on their work computers, even when they sign in to private web-based email accounts for private transmissions, as such events can be recorded by employers, as the computer being used has been designated by the courts as the domain of the employer to be used by the employee only for the purpose of legitimate business commerce.

Though there are still a limited number of court cases that document the firing of employees, as legitimate on the grounds of their use of employee computers to engage in non-work related communications, they do exists and they are being determined in the favor of the employer.
These cases will likely serves as a bridge that will continue to severely limit the "privacy" of individuals, i.e. clearly deeming the workplace (even in a private company) as a public space where individuals can be watched without the reasonable assumption of privacy.

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