New Email Regulations Allow Employers To Access Staff Communications

Starting today employers can read workers' email without their consent, but heavyweights including the IoD want changes From Tuesday, new regulations give employers the power to eavesdrop on the email communications of their staff, a legal shift . . . Starting today employers can read workers' email without their consent, but heavyweights including the IoD want changes From Tuesday, new regulations give employers the power to eavesdrop on the email communications of their staff, a legal shift that has been welcomed by businesses, but condemned as a breach of the right to privacy by civil liberty groups.

The new Lawful Business Practices Regulations -- part of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP) Act -- gives bosses the all clear to read the private communications of staff without the consent of correspondents.

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