What about work-related emails being sent on the personal accounts - in the
knowledge that they are going to be deleted fairly quickly - and therefore
any shady stuff is less likely to picked up there?
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Broadfoot" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 12:18 AM
Subject: [data-protection] Personal email on company systmes
I was recently asked for my views on the usefulness or otherwise of
setting up staff personal email accounts on a company's IT system. The
company in question is seeking to regulate growing non business use of
its email systems by employees. Each employee would have two addresses -
something like [log in to unmask] for business mail and
[log in to unmask] for their personal mail. The IT
department thinks this is a good idea - arguments in favour centre largely
around cleaner archiving as mail in the personal accounts would not be
retained.
Peraonally I can't see the point! I've pointed out that the company
concerned is unlkely to be able to avoid content and other liability
issues for mail in the personal mail boxes and also I can forsee all kinds
of privacy problems - to my mind the personal boxes would be outside the
ambit of the Lawful Business Practices. But I wondered whether i) anyone
else has come across this sort of approach and ii) have they identified or
experienced any particular DP issues?
Very grateful for views/comments.
regards,
Kevin Broadfoot
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