UPDATED 12/4/2008
CIO.com has an entertaining article entitled “10 Things You Should Never Write in An Email or Instant Message.” The list was complied by a company that writes e-discovery software. The Connecticut Employment Law Blog has a employment law post here on the same issue. Although the posts are humorous, it is important to take away the correct lesson — be careful what you say in email. Would you want that email you are typing to be displayed on a blown-up exhibit easel in a courtroom someday?
The point of the article is spot on-just don’t do it!
Email monitoring software is just one of many proactive tools out there an organization might use, but the possible digital trail left from any suspicious activity is too complex to safely cover up.
So many smoking guns found in webmail fragments, sent from a work computer..