** Reply to note from =?iso-8859-1?q?Su=20Goulding?= <[log in to unmask]> Mon, 24 Nov 2003 15:56:34 +0000
> A member of staff is leaving and asks for a permanent copy of the contents of
> their "personal" e-mail folder to take away with them.
>
> HR and IT ponder how to juggle employer liability, risk of intellectual
> property theft and personal privacy - and then go home with a headache....
>
> Would you a) refuse point blank, b) agree, but vet the contents first to make
> sure nothing confidential has been removed, c) agree and let the data go on
> trust or d) none of the above? (Sorry, no prizes, other than the warm glow of
> satisfaction of knowing your stuff).
Good to see Fridays always come quickly.
I think you are concerned about IP and you are try to find a DP reason to refuse
:-)
Surely that person could have printed off all their email and be gone (let alone
save on a floppy). Unless you don't allow printing, forwarding of emails to
another account, use of floppies etc. Ditto for the risk to your intellectual
property and similar, all could have been gone already.
In which case little you can do if the person decides to abuse the personal
data s/he has got (eg. spam all the email addresses).
Is this person really asking you to put them on a CD and gift wrap it?
Probably (b) then :-)
Charles
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Charles Christacopoulos, Management Information Officer,
Planning & Information, University of Dundee, Dundee, DD1 4HN,
Scotland, United Kingdom. Tel: 44(0)1382-344891. Fax: 44(0)1382-348845.
http://www.somis.dundee.ac.uk/
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