I'm possibly wearing my Devil's Advocate Hat - why should they (we) be
allowed to do send personal emails at work? It might be nice, it might be
useful, it might be more conducive to good employer / employee relations,
but is it so terrible to refuse to allow staff to send personal emails? Is
it in any way illegal to do so?
Tim Turner
Data Protection / FOI Officer
Legal and Property Services
Wigan Council
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[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Roland Perry
Sent: Wed 11 April 2007 14:16
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Subject: Re: [data-protection] European Court of Human Rights: Personal
calls and Internet usage from work are (maybe) protected
In message <[log in to unmask]>, at
12:06:10 on Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Ian Welton <[log in to unmask]> writes
>Individual levels of freedom as an element of privacy and the potential
>contrast/conflict with organisational control/management generally
>appears clearly in these types of cases.
The aspect I'm most interested in is the ability of the (desk bound)
employee to be able to send/receive important personal emails while at work.
Due regard needs to be given to how much that distracts from their job (I
wouldn't expect people to be able to run an eBay auction from
work) but they should be allowed to do it (rather than it being absolutely
banned) and when they do send/receive such emails there should be an
adequate and reasonable degree of privacy.
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Roland Perry
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