Lori asked: > Which of you tech-savvy types knows whether email that is simply sent > or received via an employer-owned computer (but not via an employer- > provided account), particularly a networked computer, can be > monitored/read?
I have been wondering the same thing. At the last two places I've worked, they banned having or accessing outside email accounts from the work computer. I forget some of their reasoning at this point, however. One of the reasons was what they thought there was a greater risk of receiving viral-infected downloads and spam from outside accounts. I can't see how reading hotmail off the internet could be written in stone on the company's system somewhere, but I guess the record of accessing the hotmail account, for instance, would be there - possibly leading to another subpoena for the hotmail email, but probably not neccessarily being as much of a direct liability problem. Kakki
