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Re: SEC Rule Announcement
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeffrey I. Schiller)
Wed Feb 4 15:58:52 1998
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 1998 14:33:51 -0500
From: "Jeffrey I. Schiller" <jis@MIT.EDU>
To: Larry Layten <larry@ljl.com>
CC: "cryptography@c2.net" <cryptography@c2.net>
Although I understand where the SEC is coming from, this looks like hugh
privacy violation. Do employers have the right to open employees private
paper mail (at home) and monitor personal phone calls (from home)?
-Jeff
Larry Layten wrote:
>
> I received information in an Electronic Mail Association (EMA)
> bulletin that said the Securities and Exchange Commission
> approved a rule that would go into effect February 15th that
> requires securities employers to have the ability to monitor
> electronic communications between employees and customers
> on employees' home computers or through third party systems.
>
> Does anyone have any more information on this and how it
> might apply to encrypted email?
>
> Larry
