Corporations Face Problems with Employee Emails

TwistedOne151 writes "Law.com has an article outlining how the casual attitude of many employees toward work e-mails has resulted in some thorny problems for corporate in-house counsel. 'It has now become routine even in civil investigations for computers to be subpoenaed so lawyers can look at e-mails and hard drives. And one thing always leads to another. "We have forensic software that shows multiple levels of deletions. It shows thought processes. We can learn far more than from just a document alone," said [Scott] Sorrels. "E-mails have taken over the world."'"

Comments

Article reads like a 'cry wolf'

[cerberusss]

If you read the article, it talks about the thorny problems that legal people have with e-mail. The following absolutely shocking examples are given:

• catty comments or frankly inappropriate language
• They call people names
• They make inappropriate comments
• "can you believe that [expletive] is complaining about this?"
• "I can't believe she's pregnant at such an inconvenient time at work."

I was like Oh My God, can you imagine the billions and billions of dollars that must be pumped into lawsuits regarding these comments?

Nope, me neither.

Re:Simple Solution

[Cutterman]

Cardinal Richelieu said, "Give me six lines written by the most honest man, and I will find something in them to hang him."

As true now as it was then.

Re:Wait, emails have taken over the world?!

[pimpimpim]

A maffia boss in Italy was caught in 2006, he used small paper notes with (sloppily) encrypted messages on it to send out orders. Apparently it worked for a long time, and would still have worked if he had used better encryption.