Most employees presume that their electronic mail correspondence and Internet access is personal. Ordinarily, this is not the case. In a business setting, the employer's rights to preserve its security interests commonly outbalance an employee's privacy rights when the employee uses Company apparatus. Electronic mail (e-mail) has become a common communication tool within companies and institutions at this time. Its prevalence has soared in recent years due to use by people at home and at work. It is the appliance of e-mail in the workplace that has given rise to a number of issues that have not been sufficiently addressed by law. Surveys have shown that a good percentage of federal and private organizations supervise and monitor their employee's communication activities.
