Telephone, Voice Mail and Email Monitoring

This section addresses the issues created by workplace technology and the current state of the law as it applies to these issues.

Civil Electronic Privacy Statutes

The Electronic Communications Privacy Act (1986) gives an employer who maintains email and/or voice mail systems the right to access those systems.¹ This right does not exist under the Act if the systems are provided by an outside entity. Certain unauthorized disclosures are prohibited by the act. Disclosure can be made only to: