Monitoring Company Email Of An Independent Contractor

My employer/client has requested several times over my password for my
email account which is a free company open webmail email account. As
an independent contractor, my client datbase IS my company and belows
to no other. Sending emails to potential and existing clients could be
fraudently obtained. My employer passed a company employees email
password around several months ago.

What recourse do I have??

Re: Monitoring Company Email Of An Independent Contractor

In article <1143123770.690678.327580@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>,
psoodoo@yahoo.com wrote:
>My employer/client has requested several times over my password for my
>email account which is a free company open webmail email account. As
>an independent contractor, my client datbase IS my company and belows
>to no other. Sending emails to potential and existing clients could be
>fraudently obtained. My employer passed a company employees email
>password around several months ago.
>
>What recourse do I have??
>

Unless you are contractually obligated to provide that type
of access to your personal accounts, tell them to fuck off.

Claude

Re: Monitoring Company Email Of An Independent Contractor

even though its their webmail account????

Re: Monitoring Company Email Of An Independent Contractor

even though its their webmail account????

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Re: Monitoring Company Email Of An Independent Contractor

In article <1143123770.690678.327580@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>,
"psoodoo@yahoo.com" wrote:

> My employer/client has requested several times over my password for my
> email account which is a free company open webmail email account. As
> an independent contractor, my client datbase IS my company and belows
> to no other. Sending emails to potential and existing clients could be
> fraudently obtained. My employer passed a company employees email
> password around several months ago.
>
> What recourse do I have??

Don't use employer-provided resources for your personal projects. They
provided the account for you to support your work for them, not for you
to use as you see fit.

--
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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Re: Monitoring Company Email Of An Independent Contractor

psoodoo@yahoo.com wrote:
> What recourse do I have??
>

Your recourse, if any, will be set forth by the user agreement or terms
of service the company had you sign or otherwise implicitly agree to
(i.e. if there's a warning banner with respect to usage rights when you
log on to the system).

Though I disagree with the premise, if the company has no usage policy,
then you have a lot of ground to stand on and they have little.

FWIW...

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