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[Tom Worthington]

At 20:50 23/02/00 +1000, Adam Todd wrote:

>>... a court ruled that a Norwich Union employee had
>>defamed WPA in an internal email.
>
>One has got to ask how that INTERNAL Email got to the competitor in the
>first place!

Internal documents can be discovered in court proceedings. Also employees
can accidently or deliberately send them outside the organization.

Once at the Defence Department I received a message from a senior manager at
a well known multinational IT company explaining what they didn't like about
me and why I was "biased" (because I recommended lower cost, open standard,
Australian made products over inferior imported ones). They had somehow
included me on the address list to their staff!

By now anyone in business should realize that anything they, or their staff,
type into a computer may be discovered and used against them.

Tom Worthington FACS     tom.worthington@tomw.net.au  Ph: 0419 496150
Director, Tomw Communications Pty Ltd              A.C.N. 088 714 309
http://www.tomw.net.au                  PO Box 13, Belconnen ACT 2617
Visiting Fellow, Computer Science,  Australian National University
Publications Director & Past President,  Australian Computer Society
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