At 10:05 19/09/00 +0100, Roger Cook wrote:
... lots of good points
> Fifth, the new Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) must now be
> considered. This is an extremely complex piece of legislation and one
> clause suggests that employers may have a duty to monitor email. However,
> the Act goes on to suggest that it can only be monitored in transit. Now
> there are ways of doing this but if you get it wrong, the aggrieved
> employee has another Act under which to bring an action.
There is a bit more detail about monitoring of traffic by employers in the
draft regulations on lawful business practice regarding the interception of
communications published by the DTI a few weeks ago. These fit under
section 4(2) of the RIP Act. The consultation period on these has now
closed, but the documents appear to be still on the web at
http://www.dti.gov.uk/cii/lbpcondoc.htm
Andrew
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