P/C/34. Email monitoring in the working environment

This report aims to assess an issue of Email monitoring in the working environment. Report looks at the causes and reasons for e-mail monitoring; needs for email monitoring, ethical concerns; email monitoring as an invasion of the privacy; key regulations in relation to email monitoring such as the Human Rights Act 1998, the Data Protection Act 1998 and the Employment Practices Data Protection Code. Report presents the arguments for and against email monitoring in the light of preceding discussion. Last section of report presents practical analysis of email monitoring case and concludes with recommendations for the companies regarding the use of email monitoring.