Employees personal email from personal computer and personal email account read by employer?

I sent emails from HOME on personal time from a personally owned computer and using my own personal domain email account to a fellow employee on her personal computer but to her WORK email account. I believe she received the emails at home as well. The emails were not harassing and violated to legal or workplace rules. The emails contained personal information to both of us - again, not in anyway derogatory to anyone or the company, My employer later requested her to forward copies of those personal emails which she did for employer to read. Was our personal privacy violated in this case and do I have any grounds for legal action?
Employees personal email from personal computer and personal email account read by employer?
As soon as you sent it to a work account it involved her employer. All work emails, computer systems and equipment are the property of the employer.





When you use company property there isnt any personal privacy, real or implied.





If you read your HR pamplet, there should be a section covering computer and internet use during work hours. (if there isnt any, then your companies a rare bird.)





At my company, personal use of company computers and the internet is a firing offense.
Reply:If she recieved them at work on a company computer the emails are the property of the company
Reply:Make up an account that is maintained only for your employment needs, i.e., all emails that are work related.





Leave your personal email account for personal use.





Remember, any text messages from your cell or emails, and anything of that nature can be used against you in a court of law. You should be mindful and be aware of all content, front and back.





Cheers :)
Reply:Anything sent to a work account can be accessed and monitored by the company.





Regardless of where it was checked, that domain is registered to an monitored by the company.
Reply:Anything that goes to your email at work in the US your employer can look at (It's different in the EU). There's nothing you can do. Web mail is a little more secure although if your company monitors your web traffic they will pick it up.








I am not a lawyer. Only licensed lawyers can give legal advise.
Reply:It sounds like if the emails were sent to an email address provided by the employer that the employer hasd every right to check up on what is being sent to and from his email addresses. It's a question of ownership of the account and he owns it, so he has every right to look at it.





It's the same thing with regular mail. If you were to send her letters adderessed to her at the company then as soon as the post office delivers it to the address then the employer or anybody can open it and you have no grounds for complaint. The only time mail fraud or tampering would apply in a case like this is if the letters were intercepted before they reached the delivery address.
Reply:Your privacy was violated and the employer should not have read the email, although he was within his rights to do so. Whether he can and whether he should are two different issues entirely.





It's frustrating that we have to be so vigilant about which email accounts we send messages to and from, especially considering that it's easy for professional contacts to turn into friends, and the nature of correspondence can frequently toggle between friendly and professional.