Privacy Issues in the Workplace: Email, Voicemail & Snailmail

On January 27, 2006, Andrew H. Friedman will speak at the California State Bar Association’s Section Education Institute on Email, Voicemail, and Snailmail: Privacy Issues in the New Workplace. The speech will address recent technological advances that have made it relatively easy for employers to monitor (e.g., “spy on”) their employees’ electronic communications in the workplace – employers can monitor employees’ computer keystrokes, review instant messages sent and received by employees, keep track of the internet web sites visited by employees, calculate how much time employees spend “playing” on the internet, access voice-mail messages left for employees, monitor employee telephone conversations, and read instant messages and e-mails that are sent and received by employees at work.

The speech will take place at Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel in Santa Monica, California and will take place 9:45 a.m. until 11:45 a.m.