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It's funny how people forget email

terry flores 7th Oct 2009

is a permanent record, and that it (like search history) is a prime target for lawyers looking for evidence of intent, willful negligence, and conspiracy.

Every year, we send out scary notices to our employees that say our email system is NOT private. Every year I have 3 or 4 people fired for using email or the web for personal business, visiting porn or betting sites, you name it. And these firings are not swept under the rug, we have the equivalent of the "perp walk" just to keep awareness of the penalties for misuse of computers at the company.

We've had a number of other IT managers in other companies tell us we are too harsh, and that employees expect "leeway" in how they use their PCs and the web, but when you can get hit with litigation that could cost the company hundreds of millions of dollars, there is no leeway.