Re: Query, GEN: Privacy & Email

[Grace Oliff <grace_1335@YAHOO.COM>]

From personal experience, definitely NOT.  At one of
our local high schools, a student was recently
suspended because an e-mail he sent to a friend was
forwarded to one of her friends who did not know the
sender, and that e-mail was then forwarded to the
local police department, who contacted the school.
Think of all the misinterpretations possible along
this circuitous trail. This child is paying dearly for
an off-hand remark made to a friend.  What IS (or is
there?) a law here? Grace
--- Dawn Sardes <Dmsardes@AOL.COM> wrote:
> Just curious,
>
> Does anyone know if emails are afforded the same
> privacy protection as other,
> older forms of communication?  Now, I know that
> email messages from accounts
> provided by one's employer may be viewed at any
> time, and that people have
> lost their jobs for using their email
> inappropriately.
>
> For example, you cannot tape a person who calls you
> on the phone, even if
> that person is threatening you or making obsene
> calls.  If you do, you can be
> sued.
>
> I also understand that written letters cannot be
> forwarded to 3rd parties
> without the permission of the writer.
>
> So, if I write an email to another person, from my
> home, on my own time,
> using my personal AOL account, can that person then
> forward it to say, my
> employer, or other 3rd party in a nasty attempt to
> get me fired or to cause
> me some other problem?
>
> Also, IMHO, the Off-topic discussion is off-topic
> for this list and should be
> stopped, immediately
> (hee-hee-hee-hee-hee-ha-ha-ho-ho-ho).
>
> Dawn Sardes
> YA Librarian
> Euclid Public Library
> dmsardes@aol.com
>
>
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