Previous Politech message: http://www.politechbot.com/p-03356.html --- Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 01:12:10 +0000 From: Jeremy Barker <jeremy.barkerat_private> To: declanat_private CC: CBeckat_private Subject: Re: FC: UK firms can't police personal email at work during officehours There's a fundamental difference between what employers want to do (look at the contents of e-mail their employees are sending and receiving) and what the government wants to do (record nothing more than the to and from addresses of e-mail and the time it was sent or received). Unfortunately a lot of people, perhaps deliberately, have misunderstood the government's monitoring proposals which talk about "traffic data". "Traffic data" is legally defined as data showing the origin and destination of e-mail but people have been reading it as if it meant "data within traffic" - which is legally termed "content" and can only be monitored with special authorisation. Regards, Jeremy Barker (employment lawyer) --- From: CBeckat_private To: Jeremy Barker <jeremy.barkerat_private> Cc: declanat_private, CBeckat_private Subject: Re: FC: UK firms can't police personal email at work during officehours Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 21:06:42 -0400 Point taken, to be sure, but I am aware of the difference between end-points and content. I was merely pointing out the irony of the UK government chastising companies for behaviour that they would love to do themselves. (Behaviour that if they don't already do, they are certainly trying very hard to make it transparently easy to do) BTW, I'm aware that Canada has a less than sterling record when it comes to privacy ... our friends the RCMP are showing that quite handily in Kelowna as was mentioned on Politech the other day. <http://www.politechbot.com/p-03279.html>http://www.politechbot.com/p-03279.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Politech dinner in SF on 4/16: http://www.politechbot.com/events/cfp2002/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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