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US Firms Read Employee E-mail On a Massive Scale

Posted by timothy on from the this-call-may-be-monitored dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In its fifth annual study of outbound e-mail and data loss prevention issues, Proofpoint found that 41% of the largest companies surveyed (those with 20,000 or more employees) reported that they employ staff to read or otherwise analyze the contents of outbound e-mail. 22% of these companies said they employ staff primarily or exclusively for this purpose."

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  1. Get back to work! by Unique2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I also monitor your web traffic, now get back to work!

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    1. Re:Get back to work! by Profane+MuthaFucka · · Score: 5, Funny

      You wouldn't catch me surfing and getting my images up on that screen. I'd be out there watching that screen all day long. Seldom is there a really cool idea posted on Slashdot, but that's definitely cool.

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    2. Re:Get back to work! by GoodNicksAreTaken · · Score: 2, Funny

      Get back to work and quit downloading pictures of Rick Astley!

  2. Not at my company by InlawBiker · · Score: 5, Funny

    Where I'm at I'm lucky if I can get anybody at all to read my email. Especially my boss.

  3. T-shirts by outlando · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wow. So those 'I read your email' T-shirts are for real then.

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  4. Cool Job!! by benwiggy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dear Sir

    I would like to apply for the job of Chief Sneak and Tattle-tale at your company. I believe I have the relevant nosiness, curiousity and contempt for my fellow employees, along with an over-riding ability to toady to management. I also love lauding it over other people that I know their business.

    1. Re:Cool Job!! by phagstrom · · Score: 3, Funny

      Also I want know how the system works, so I can beat it, when I want to send an email. ;-)

    2. Re:Cool Job!! by Chrisq · · Score: 2, Funny

      Just mail it to anyone. They will find you.

  5. Now if only I could get them to REPLY... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Until now I had no evidence my boss was actually reading my emails.

  6. Warm Regards by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Hello,

    I'm William Colgate II, an Executive Member of the Audit and Compensation Committee of ExxonMobil in London (http://www.exxonmobil.co.uk).

    I have a sensitive and private brief from the Senior Executives of this top oil company in need of your partnership to re-profile funds amounting to US$12.2M (Twelve Million Two Hundred Thousand United States Dollars). I will let you have the details but in summary, the fund shall be paid to you through our operating bank where it is presently deposited as soon as the legalization and documentation process is concluded in your name.

    This is a legitimate transaction without government interference and you shall be compensated with 20% of the total sum, should you and your company agree to work with us. If you are interested, please reply to palon9@terra.es for further details.

    Warm Regards,

    William Colgate II
    +44 704 579 1413

  7. Re:It's not work monitor emails that bugs me. by maxume · · Score: 2, Funny

    The US will generally allow you to renounce your citizenship. I think you might need existing citizenship from another country to do it though.

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  8. Solution by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Hi Angy,
    I'll be late home, but its OK I'll stop and get a take-away. Please reply and let me know if you want Chinese or Indian.

    (Well I won't have to email)

  9. Re:Ah, the beauty of being bi-lingual by kellyb9 · · Score: 4, Funny

    ....que nadie entendeis cuando escribes asi; Especialmente cuando deja a deletrear palabras correctamente asi que no traducen. You, sir, must be a terrorist.
  10. Re:It's not work monitor emails that bugs me. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    >Just think of it as a real-life RPG.

    Especially if a real-life RPG comes flying towards you.