Comments on: Email Right to Privacy – Why Small Businesses Care

By: Than Nguyen

Than Nguyen — Tue, 31 May 2011 17:59:37 +0000

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By: jimmie

jimmie — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 16:56:18 +0000

Do companies have the right to continue using your e-mail account after you leave, “personalname@company.com” is a question i like to have anwsered.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:58:50 +0000

I believe that employers should have the right to access business email accounts but the content should be kept private. I think employers should make it known to the employees that they can or will access business email accounts if need be. If employees know that the emails they send may be read, then anything they want private should be sent under their own personal email account.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:52:45 +0000

I agree with the ruling and am pleased to hear it. It certainly would be a violation of privacy. However, with respect to the business having the ability to go into email account’s – that’s to be expected. If your uncomfortable with that – stick with your personal email instead of your business account. I’ve never encountered such a situation, but would expect that the employer’s have the right.

By: Tim Berry

Tim Berry — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 06:12:47 +0000

Thanks Anita nice post, and important. We use email so much that having it scooped up by authorities after the fact feels like a personal violation.

Re companies and employees, I’m very sensitive to this because my company has 35 employees. The head of tech support has the capability to look at email because we manage our own mail server. Sometimes somebody messes up, virus or something, and occasionally there is some indigestible email that clogs the whole system. We have to go in to that person’s email to fix the problem.

Given that background, since it’s really impossible to actually guarantee privacy, we feel much better in going the conservative route and warning everybody that email isn’t private, so we don’t have some horrible snafu.

Tim Berry

By: EJMalyn

EJMalyn — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 01:41:46 +0000

It only makes sense that any company should have the right to inspect their files at any given time. I don’t feel that any employee should have an expection of privacy when using company e-mailing for their own personal use. It’s called “common sense”.