Question about email privacy

[lostinfitness]

your friend is up the creek. There is no expectation of privacy whatsoever while on employer owned computers, servers etc. If i were him I would just move on and find another job. The company has the right to say why were you checking personal emails while on company time/resources.

good luck to him

 

[SpyWizard]

No this was his personal email that he uses at home. He has a hotmail account that he uses, and said that somehow this other guy (who hates him, but very computer savy) was able to get a few emails that he sent. He thinks that he somehow hacked into his email account.

that's possible.. but they way he probably did it was he guessed, or put a key stroke on the guys' computer, caught the hotmail account password, logged on from a different computer system (if he's smart like a library)_ and accessed it that way..

does the guy have recourse?? only if hotmail has records and he can prove the IT guy did it from the work location..

but.. what he would sue for is hostile work environment, not invasion of privacy..

A person is not guaranteed privacy.. check the constitution..

best advice, don't write things you don't want others to know..

 

[seaking420]

that's possible.. but they way he probably did it was he guessed, or put a key stroke on the guys' computer, caught the hotmail account password, logged on from a different computer system (if he's smart like a library)_ and accessed it that way..

does the guy have recourse?? only if hotmail has records and he can prove the IT guy did it from the work location..

but.. what he would sue for is hostile work environment, not invasion of privacy..

A person is not guaranteed privacy.. check the constitution..

best advice, don't write things you don't want others to know..

Thats what I thought happened, somehow this guy was able to get his password to get into his account. Sucks that people go to this extreme to screw someone over and make them lose thier job.