Dear All
Following the introduction yesterday (24/10/00) of the Telecommunications
(Lawful Business Practice) (Interception of Communications) Regulations 2000
which allows employers to intercept and monitor telephone and e-mail content
for "lawful business purposes" there will inevitably be some conflict between
this and the Data Protection Act 1998, particularly on the issue of being
fair to both senders and recipients.
As the consultation on the DPC's guidance on employer/employee issues has
just been published (which contains a section on e-mail monitoring) does
anyone feel we as a group of DPOs should be contributing to the consultation
or are members of the mailbase so far apart on the application of the DPA98
that a consensus would be impossible?
Ian B
PS if this e-mail does not arrive, it has been intercepted by your employer
and classified as potentially subversive.
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