How private is your personal email address when you use it at work?

Question

I know that employer's have the right to monitor what sites employees go on during business hours since it is the company's property, but it is legal for them to read your personal email (yahoo, hotmail, aol, ect.) if you are signed in during business hrs?

Answer 1

Yep, ALL e-mails run through the companies server.
All e-mails are logged and KEPT on the companies server.
How do you think they keep a check on you?

Answer 2

Yes ... I believe so. You have NO expectation of ANY privacy on your employer's computer. Remember, it belongs to them, not you.

"When you sit down at your office computer, you have no reasonable expectation of privacy," said Nancy Flynn, executive director of The ePolicy Institute and author of "email Rules."

"Federal law here in the U.S. clearly states that the computer system is the property of the employer and as such the employer has the right to monitor all email activity and Internet activity," she said. ***

Answer 3

do not deliver any information. that is called phishing (or some thing similar), they deliver you a mail and ask you for all that non-public information you stated. With that information they could likely get entry on your economic employer account, or do any extraordinary stuff from that. also, there is an outstanding form of mails supposedly form ebay, paypall, one economic employer or yet another that stated that they realized that your account became being accessed from yet another u . s ., and that with the intention to substantiate that you're you, you should fill out information on a link. it truly is also phishing. in case you get a mail, and are not efficient about it, enter the positioning of ebay, paypal, economic employer x or economic employer y, and search for for a splash link, and e mail them that mail, tell them you received it, yet aren't from now on efficient if that is reliable or no longer. likely that's absolutely not reliable.

Answer 4

It's not private. There is a warning at work that emails are company property

Answer 5

well most companies run on a network system. and in a network system there is one main computer that runs and restricts programs. they also have the write to lock you out of your own computer and see you without you knowing you being watched word for word what you are typing.

Answer 6

Not private at all.

And if you are accessing your private email, or any other web-based service, any data that flows over the company's internet connection is subject to their review.

But they cannot go into your private accounts directly -- they can only "look over your shoulder" as you access them.