Re: Monitoring User!!

From: Steve Parry [MVP] (k100rs_1990_at_nospam.hotmail.com)
Date: 01/07/05 

Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 19:09:51 -0000

Gary Smith fumbled, fiddled and fingered:

> Neil Shaw <neil@nshaw.co.uk> wrote:
>> Incidentally, what are the legal implications of this sort of thing?
>> I suspect human rights will come into it somewhere, so be careful.
>
> The company owns the computer. The company sets the policy and has
> the legal right to monitor all activity and read all files and
> communications. The company has no legal obligation to inform the
> employee of such monitoring, but it's generally considered ethical to
> do so. The employee has no right to privacy, and if the company has
> published an acceptable use policy, the employee has no defense if
> that policy is violated.

Our company is Finnish company

Apparently Finnish law states that any and all email sent to an employee
is private and cannot be viewed by anyone else with the express persion
of the recipient.

Although we are in the UK we have to adhere to Finnish law as all the
mail routes via their Domino servers to ours.

Don't make the mistake of thinking any company can work indendantly of
the law. 

-- 
Steve Parry BA (Hons) MCP MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
http://www.gwynfryn.co.uk

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