Systems: A Tool Kit for Formulating Your Company's Policy." It's $45
and is available from EMA at (703) 524-5550.
But be warned: The EMA's position on privacy is that "employers need
the right to control, evaluate, and monitor all forms of employee communication." EMA director William Moroney has stated that corporate
email users shouldn't expect "any more right of privacy than they get
from tossing a memo in their out-basket." (Endnote #33)
There is a way to protect your private email from snoopers. It's called
encryption. Just as army dispatches during wartime are coded in case
they fall into the wrong hands, it's technically possible to code, or
encrypt, email messages. The technologies and techniques vary. But,
for a variety of political reasons, built-in encryption has not been
widely deployed in email systems.