Any email that you send from your work place computer is the property of your employer.

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12. As strong and staunch an advocate as I am

for privacy, and as pro-employee as I am, I have to say that I really don't have much of a problem with this. If you are using work computers during work time, that is the property of the employer and not your own personal property. Therefore, they have the right to make their own policies regarding its use and collection of data, and how you are using work property. You have to assume that anything you do on work computers will be known to them and act accordingly.

If there are personal emails and/or texts you need to send, do it on your own personal devices on your own time. If there is personal internet business you need to complete, do it on your own devices on your own time. Period. And if the company provides personal devices for you to use, you still need to assume that everything on it will be subject to collection and/or will be known to the employer, because it remains their property.

Do NOT do ANYTHING on a work computer and/or device that you would not want known by your employer or be subject to data collection. That is just simple common sense nowadays.