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/ rob@invaluement.com +1 (478) 475-9032