If you work for State Rail you are able to use your home and duty pass outside work hours. This means management can also track movements in your private life. With companies now warehousing and selling data you never know how this information could be used.' email is as private as a postcard Communication between staff members by email is now a business norm. But don't kid yourself that only you have access to your email. Your email is not private and confidential.
Third parties can easily gain access to it.
There are laws to protect workers from abusive video surveillance but, to date, nothing to protect privacy of the Internet and email in Australia. The NSW Labor Council is now trying to establish similar guidelines for electronic surveillance. The ASU is pushing in enterprise agreements the right for union activists to use email for union business.