Thomas Oconnor wrote:
>> Guys do you know if it is legal for companies to monitor a pop 3 address if
> there is personal information of mine going through it ?
Short answer: yes. If it's a company email address, then your rights
don't amount to a hill of beans. Whatever that means. Even if you're
just using a work computer to access your own account from your own ISP,
then the PHBs are entitled to log everything coming through the network.
More specifically, they're entitled to get their tech staff to do it for
them.
It's not just pop, btw; anything you access from work is open to your
employer.
Moral of the story? Use GPG. Or check your mail at home. Or become a
sysadmin so you'll be the one to set up the monitoring. Or buy a carrier
pigeon.
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