Brother, I seem to recall several lawsuits where different companies have been ordered by the courts to produce employee emails and different communications like voicemails. This case was produced by a simple Google search
DHILLON SINGH, et al., Plaintiffs,
v.
HANCOCK NATURAL RESOURCES GROUP, INC., et al., Defendants.
Case No. 1:15-cv-01435 LJO JLT.
United States District Court, E.D. California.
December 29, 2016.
Exactly my point.......Voicemails were regarded as proprietary as far as the company went.....Nothing could be done until they went to court....
And you will find just as many court cases where judges ruled that circumstances were different and the companies claim to e-mails and voicemails on company time and equipment.......were the property of the person who generated them.....
We are....rapidly moving into new territory as far as electronic surveillance goes......and you are seeing courts throughout the world struggling with peoples rights vs. corporate profitability in selling information gathered......
Just about every computer site uses “cookies” to tailor-make ads to sell you crap they think YOU.....personally......want. One example of information gathering......
(...Look at my Avatar.....Shouldn't that poor old coalminer be getting a residual payment?,.....Someone captured his image,...and I use it for free....)(.....I would pay him for use of his image if I knew who he was....)(...How many other guys use images of people....for FREE?....When yours gets captured by your employer, and gets "sold" on an open market,...will we see you , in an "unguarded moment"....as someone's avatar,..or punchline for a joke?)
And....Surely you don't think that...."corporate ethics"...(..greatest oxymoron in the English language..)..will prevent companies from....making a PROFIT over information they gather?......
I'm sure that....given the fast pace of increasing intrusive technology,...you would like to protect your own image from being "gathered" by your employer,........with NO oversight of how that image may be used....for company profit,....because THEY own the equipment by which it was...."gathered"....
Not Paranoid.......but Proactive......