On 01/17/2015 06:39 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2015-01-17 23:43, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 01/17/2015 05:32 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
So, make sure about the laws of the country were this server is setup.
That's it in a nutshell!
But recall, in many jurisdictions, if you are using mail at work for business purposes, the mail is the property of the company, so privacy is over-ridden. Your employer has the right to monitor your work product, and you may be prevented from using corporate resources (aka your corporate supplied laptops or PC) for private use such as accessing your person (e.g.) hotmail or aol account.
Yes, but interestingly, in Spain there have been court rulings that said, more or less, that the employer had no right to read his employee email and use the findings for firing him or something of the sort. He not only had to revert the firing and pay a penalization for improper firing, but pay another penalty for violating email secrecy. This was a decade ago, so I may well remember the details wrong. Maybe it was not company email, but email written at the company on company time, on a private email account. I'm unsure after these years.
Laws and court rulings tend to evolve over time, and sometimes courts and governments, even of the same country, become antagonistic. Are the courts & judges state appointees or elected officials, for example? Corporations are often held to be individuals, even when that gets to be ridiculous[1].
I have a friend who may fill me in the details of this, but he is on a trip and he will not explain what he knows over email. I want to satisfy my curiosity about this :-)
I'd be interested in hearing what he has to say and how the internally between corporate rights and individuals rights is playing out there.
I do know that European laws on privacy are rather more strict than in the USA, though.
That is so. As Chomsky and others have said, the US idea of Democracy is about preserving the top-down power structures while instituting a system driven by elections, whereas the European model is about the electorate delegating power and representation upwards. An emerging property from the way we all have each dealt with our civil wars & revolutions. A side effect of this is that in the USA corporations can wield more power and authority than individuals, so issues like "use of corporate resources" over-ride individual rights. Although its argued as such, this is not so much about "rights" as it is about culture and tradition. [1] http://www.autoblog.com/2013/01/07/california-man-using-corporations-are-peo... but also http://www.autoblog.com/2013/01/12/update-corporations-are-not-people-in-car... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org