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Study Finds Companies Snoop on Employee e-Mail

A Reuters newswire article, via Yahoo! News, reports that:

Big Brother is not only watching but he is also reading your e-mail.

According to a new study, about a third of big companies in the United States and Britain hire employees to read and analyze outbound e-mail as they seek to guard against legal, financial or regulatory risk.

More than a third of U.S. companies surveyed also said their business was hurt by the exposure of sensitive or embarrassing information in the past 12 months, according to the annual study from a company specializing in protecting corporate e-mail at large businesses.

posted by Fergie @ 6/02/2006 12:45:00 PM