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by dylan604 1765 days ago
+100 to the entire way of thinking from the original post. work/personal should be treated like church/state where they are kept separate.

yes, if you read your personal email on a corp device, then there's a good chance corp is reading your personal emails. and 100% yes, the corp can/do read your corp email. they are required to keep copies of every email sent by employees, so just assume at some point some corp lawyer can/will be reading them.
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renerthr 1765 days ago
> they are required to keep copies of every email sent by employees

Required by who? (Sorry, I'm not so knowledegable about these things)

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dylan604 1765 days ago
Corporations have to follow guidelines/rules/laws in order to be in good standing. If the corp is sued, the corp will have to respond to discovery requests from the plantiff's attorneys. In the past, so many companies have deleted emails so that they did not have to turn over incriminating evidence has lead to laws being passed that require a minimum amount of document storage. I don't know the details other than it is a thing.

Edit: search "email retention laws" for more precise rules and specifics

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tpxl 1765 days ago
The corp having to give out emails on legal requests does not in any way shape or form imply they read your mails regularly. They certainly aren't allowed to in some parts of Europe, even though they have to respond to legal requests.
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dylan604 1765 days ago
>imply they read your mails regularly.

No, but the point is they can. And if there is anything they feel they need to protect themselves, they can investigate. Most corp employees are just too damn busy avoiding doing their regular tasks to be bothered to snoop other employee emails. Yes, I agree that it's not like someone is just tasked with reading all email every day. The point is that they can and do when necessary. Once they start reading, they have no idea where the trail ends so they will be reading a lot.

It all comes down to the same thing stated here multiple times, don't send any messages on corp equipment that you wouldn't want to see read aloud in front of your manager/boss or worse a courtroom.

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Spooky23 1765 days ago
It depends on locale and industry.

Some companies sample mail and flag for manual inspection.

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