A company computer and questions about e-mail privacy.
A company computer and questions about e-mail privacy – Via Privacy : Tech news from CNET :
When he was fired, Scott Sidell was angry enough. Then he found out that his former employer was reading his personal Yahoo e-mail messages, after he had left the company.
In a lawsuit that he filed in May against Structured Settlement Investments, the finance company he used to run, Sidell claims that executives at the company went so far as to read e-mail messages that he had sent to his lawyers discussing his strategy for winning an arbitration claim over his lost job.
“It’s kind of like the other side gets your playbook, or they’re spying on your locker room,” said Russell Green, a lawyer representing Sidell. He said his client was now using a new e-mail address. read more »
[Privacy Digest: Privacy News (Civil Rights, Encryption, Free Speech, Cryptography)]
This happened because Sidell and his lawyers were ignorant. It’s no secret that email is very easy to intercept by pretty much anyone with the inclination to do so–and not just governments, but companies and even hackers. This has been mentioned repeatedly even in the mainstream media, so they certainly should have known better. It’s really quite simple: if you don’t want anybody else reading your, email encrypt it.
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