When someone leaves a company, is it legal to give their manager access to their account and e-mails?

Question

I know it isnt moral, but thats never stopped business! i need to know the UK?European law on giving a manager access to a the computer account and e-mail of a user who has left the company.

Answer 1

No matter what country you are in it is legal.

The company owns the computer and "everything on it".

If you write a novel and publish it the company can sue you for plagiarism because it's now their property.

It is OK for them to do that because they also own the mail account.

They are not allowed to use keyloggers to get into personal email accounts but I assume you are talking about a business mail account provided by the company. Sorry. It's their's.

Answer 2

It's Legal if your company's policy & procedure manual explicity states that any equipment provided is for company business only (perhaps with limited reasonable personal use, like playing solitaire on your lunch break). You don't even have to tell your employees about this clause, just that a P&P manual exists and they can have a copy if they ask. P&P's are usually very long and boring, so few people get past page 10. Skip straight tp page 11 and you'll find out that you've sold your soul.
without a P&P, you risk breaching the Data Protection Act, which is potentially very expensive.

Answer 3

If your company is being run correctly, then access to emails is not allowed automatically on leaving the company - there is an expectation that company emails may have some private information on them, and it is technically considered a breach of privacy. However, most people leaving a company will not have a problem with granting access - and if the leaver gives permission, then there is no problem. What can't happen is automatic access without permission (my experience is from the IT policies of various large UK financial institutions). Now I have known one sad situation where an overbearing manager bullied his leaver into giving access and then spent the week after he left laughing out loud at the pet name which the leaver's wife gave him, evident from his emails - so this is proof of why you need to stick to the policy! Hope this helps.

Answer 4

First of all, I've never worked for a company that allowed personal emails or anything personal being done on the computer at work. So all that would be on the computer would be work-related things anyway.

Answer 5

If the account was used for business then you must give all the account details.... If it was only used for personal use then you don't need to.... ( Check with your local police as you may be breaking "The Data Protection Act ") , If details involve Bank account information..

Answer 6

If it’s your own personal account they might have a problem but one of the work accounts could be different I personally wouldn’t give them my password to gain access to the account because your not suppose to give out your passwords to anyone that includes management.

Answer 7

in case you have not have been given get right of entry to on your supervisor's e mail container, then how in the international do you carry out backups of your digital mail server? something you have not have been given get right of entry to to is a few thing you at the instant are not backing up. in case you're backing it up, then you already have get right of entry to to the account, stunning? Edit: why not have the guy have the message sent to a disribution checklist that includes the two considered one of you? Barring that, he ought to establish an Outlook rule to immediately forward the messages.

Answer 8

Slept with the bosses wife and all the details of the dirty deed are on your email inbox eh? Sorry to hearman, good luck with that :D

Answer 9

nope its ok for them to do it unless a disclaimer or another agreement of sorts were signed that states it cannot happen.

Answer 10

it's a bummer, but it's legal