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Webmail at Work: The Case for Protection Against Employer Monitoring

2007; RELX Group (Netherlands); Linguagem: Inglês

10.2139/ssrn.978075

1556-5068

Marc A Sherman,

Privacy, Security, and Data Protection

This paper is about privacy in the workplace. Specifically, I address the issue of employer monitoring of employee email. The law allows employers to monitor their workers' email - even when messages contain private information. However, although the law is clear with respect to employer-provided email, it is not yet defined as to webmail. That is - this paper shows that relevant statutes and court decisions generally have not yet addressed the privacy issues that arise when an employer monitors email sent by an employee via the employee's personal web-based email account.