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June 24, 2008 at 02:50 PM
drakebrown

HR DEPARTMENT DEMANDING EMPLOYEE PASSWORDS

by drakebrown . Updated 16 years, 6 months ago

I am the Director Of I.T. The Director of HR is demanding that i provide all the passwords of the administration department employees. I am being told they have a right to this information as they want to check email whenever they want. I consider that snooping. I recognize that email is the property of the company. However I feel unsure of whether legally they have a right to just go in carte blanche and look at email without just cause. My position is i will log into the individual account and let them peruse email without divulging the suers password. How do other companies handle this.

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