Regarding employee rights on company equipment

[lunaslide@loop.com]

A day or so ago, I reasoned incorrectly that university students and
employees were free to encrypt mail they sent through their student or work
accounts.  This was in response to a statement that the govt could retain
at least some control of internet traffic through the universities and
businesses.  I would credit the person who called me on it, by I do not
remember who it was.  It seems that, at least for employees, it is totally
up to the employer:

>From Edupage Feb 8, 1996,

INTERNET USAGE POLICIES
Neal J. Friedman, a specialist in online computer law, says that "employees
are under the misapprehension that the First Amendment applies in the
workplace --  it doesn't.  Employees need to know they have no right of
privacy and no right of free speech using company resources."  According to
Computerworld, a number of employers are adopting Internet usage polcies,
such as one developed at Florida Atlantic University: <
http://www.fau.edu/rinaldi/net/netpol.txt > (Computerworld 5 Feb 96 p55)

It's still to bad that I was wrong :-(, but such is life.

lunaslide

On the meridian of time there is no injustice, only the poetry of motion
creating the illusion of truth and drama.
                                                Henry Miller
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