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Unless the U.S. Congress alters some of the provisions of the recent
Telecommunications Act, employers need to monitor the information
transmitted through their systems to protect themselves from litigation
(civil & criminal) resulting from the acts of their employees. If I sent
you a dirty message or picture, the new law says my internet service
provider and yours are responsible for the illegal material transmitted
through their computers.
2) Are these rules similar to the rules of *your* system?
On our system, the policy is _not_ to monitor employees', but to reserve the
right to monitor students' transmissions. We do not have an active
monitoring program in place, but do have an automated monitor which shuts a
user down if they do some predefined inappropriate things, like communicate
with known cybersmut sources or use certain phrases. We do not advertise to
anyone on campus exactly how this monitoring is done.
Tom Russ