I know of no law and have provided consultancy services to several public
organisations that forbid personal use of e-mail and actively ban "email
sites".
If you can show me in black and white of such a law I would be very
interested to see it, but I am reasonably sure you are mistaken.
Simon Howarth.
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Subject: Re: [data-protection] private email accounts
If you are not a public authority, you MIGHT be able to get away with
that, but my understanding is that the current state of the law is that
even private employers you have to provide reasonable facilities for
personal internet use and telephone calls.
A search of the archives here might provide authority for this ...
Phyllis Rolleston wrote:
> Our ICT team blocks e-mail accounts for hotmail, yahoo, etc. and the e-
> mail usage policy states that the organisation's e-mail system should not
> be used for personal business. The reasoning (as it has been explained to
> staff) behind it is that there's a greater risk of downloading viruses,
> etc. Plus senior management don't want staff spending large amounts of
> time on personal business.
>
> Having said that we're not supposed to use our e-mail accounts for
> personal reasons, managers don't mind the odd personal e-mail every now
> and again as they don't mind the odd personal phone call.
>
> If someone needs access to an external e-mail account then he/she needs to
> make a case for it with the support of the manager. It would ususally be
> someone who's understaking a course of study with a university and needs
> access to the university account.
>
> Our policy seems to work fine with no major misuse reported.
>
> Regards
>
> Phyllis
>
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