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N.J. Supreme Court upholds privacy of personal e-mails accessed at work

The New Jersey courts have been handling a case that squarely addressed a company’s ability to monitor employee email. Back in April of 2009, I mentioned a New Jersey case that found e-mail, sent during work hours on a company computer, was not protected by the attorney-client privilege: Compliance Policies and Email. That later was [...]

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Workplace Computer Policy and the Attorney Client Privilege

Workplace Computer Policy and the Attorney Client Privilege

Back in April, I mentioned a New Jersey case that found e-mail, sent during work hours on a company computer, was not protected by the attorney-client privilege: Compliance Policies and Email (Stengart v. Loving Care [.pdf]) That case has now been overturned. It seems that a company’s policy on computer use may be more limited [...]

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Compliance Policies and Email

You should take a look at your computer use and email policies to see how they address three recent cases involving email in the workplace. The first case involves unauthorized acces: (Van Alstyne v. Electronic Scriptorium, Inc.).  The president of the company had broken into an employee’s personal AOL email account. The employee had occasionally [...]

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