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Email and the Internet: a concise guide to the legal issues

by Stephen Mason ISBN number 0 9543245 1 X

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In the previous 12 months, organisations have dealt with 358 disciplinary cases and 61 dismissals relating to e-mail and internet abuse, according to report published in September 2002 by KLegal and based on a joint survey with Personnel Today.

Every organisation has begun to recognise the need to contain the misuse of e-mail and internet facilities in the workplace.

With a reputation for his clarity of expression, the author has written a concise and practical guide that presents a summary of the legal issues relating to the use of e-mail and the internet at work.

This guide covers:

The corporate liability, setting out the problems that may occur, with examples of recent cases.
Control of e-mail must not only be the responsibility of human resources and IT, but include risk control managers, archivists and the company secretary.
Operational implementation of the e-mail and internet use policy, including the monitoring of employees, the need for security within the context of the Data Protection Act 1998, including a check list of what should be included in the policy.
Storage of e-mail in association with the document retention and disposal policy, including how private e-mails should be dealt with.
E-mail as evidence in a court of law.
Some attributes required of the software solutions that are now becoming available on the market.

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