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Lets be honest here...

Archkittens 4th Mar 2009

This is no different than what you should expect if you were to work at a government, and they don't even pay us as much as RIM employees. but for some reason, I still have coworkers...

I mean, we literally had users moaning at us that we couldnt save the voicemails they'd kept for the last 10 years when we migrated to a VoIP system from cisco, and everyone's happy and a-OK with our voicemails sitting in the email inbox, which is sunshine-law'd from here to the sky and back. And everyone knows we could turn on recording any time we want, and for certain customer-facing positions, we do at certain times. Nobody complained then. Hell, one employee asked us if we'd be able to search them like his emails...

I guess though, some people are mature and intelligent enough to understand that when you're using equipment that the taxpayers, or investors for that matter, have paid for, you have a degree of accountability to them.

The fact of the matter is that the RIM bosses have the burden of accountability to the stockholders, and it only takes one big publicized leak that RIM cant pin down to the minute of conversation for a single influential investor to bring a class action against them. Companies in RIM's position understand that, and I would hazard a guess that the employees of RIM understand it too.

It's not an internal trust issue. The RIM suit even went and said that RIM employees are very good about owning up when they lose a device. It's the big bosses, the Board, and the investors that you have to be accountable to, and you can bet if I was in her shoes, I wouldn't want my head on the chopping block any more than i'd want to report quarterly losses.

Data retention is a fact of life, and if you're not up to something wrong*, it's really quite useful.

*personal counts as wrong on corp or govt owned things, unless you just don't care about e-discovery and sunshine laws.