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Only in certain cases
Email does belong to the company, but you can find out who an employee is sending email to without bugging the recipient. Plus, HP was sending bait emails from a fake account to see who the reporter was forwarding the email to. That is violating the reporters rights as HP doesn't have legal standing with regards to the email once they've sent it under false pretense.

Lastly, if Mr. Keyworth was using his home or other email to converse with the reporter then that's his email not HP's, eventhough he was leaking information. It seems this would be the case because they would have had email records on the HP servers of Mr. Keyworths emails, hence no need to bug an outside source.

What Mr. Keyworth di in leaking information was wrong, but what HP did was far worse.
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Security Companies Violating Privacy  author20@... | 09/28/06
This sort of email tracing should be illegal as well, and the management  DonnieBoy | 09/28/06
I assume that this only works with Windows. I read an earlier report that  DonnieBoy | 09/28/06
I wouldn't count on that  ebrke | 09/29/06
Oh DonnieBoy...  mustang_z | 09/29/06
do you ever know what you are talking about?  balsover | 09/29/06
Wrong-O  Knorthern Knight | 09/29/06
tor  JDThompson | 09/29/06
HP and the Land of the Free  delphi@... | 09/28/06
Shame on HP??  mustang_z | 09/29/06
Sysadmin integrity  Roger Ramjet | 09/29/06
Email belongs to the company  terry W | 09/29/06
Only in certain cases  k12IT | 10/01/06
SOX  adsanders@... | 09/29/06
Interesting, BUT...  Update victim | 09/29/06
Hunh?!...  mustang_z | 09/29/06
It was NOT ILLEGAL  JackPastor | 09/29/06
Don't Be So Sure  adsanders@... | 09/29/06
I hear you !  JackPastor | 09/29/06
Email Policy  Another IT guy | 09/29/06
No Outrage  adsanders@... | 09/29/06
Thus the reason I don't use HTML when reading email...  shawkins | 09/29/06
another solution....  mroonie | 09/29/06
Simple protection: Thunderbird or SeaMonkey  jesup | 09/29/06
Simple protection: Thunderbird or SeaMonkey or Emacs  jesup | 09/29/06
So does  Troll Hunter | 09/30/06
readnotify feedback  bsiddalls@... | 09/29/06
Nullzone readnotify's servers and be done with it...  Boomslang | 10/01/06
Lamix users need not apply, Linux users understand...  Boomslang | 10/01/06
Email Privacy??  Dumber_z | 10/02/06
Precident for Clarity - it should be illegal  ronstephen@... | 10/03/06
Message has been deleted.  myfevertoy | 10/22/06
Warning Will Robinson WARNING!  mikeholli | 10/30/06
this i way to easy to do to outlaw  ses_27 | 11/16/06

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