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Survey: Companies Paying To Read Employee Email
The fifth annual corporate survey, commissioned by email security provider Proofpoint and conducted by Forrester Research, has found that 41 percent of U.S. companies with 20,000 or more employees are paying staff to read or otherwise analyze the contents of employees' outbound email, with 22 percent employing staff primarily or exclusively for that purpose. Forty-four percent of the companies surveyed said they investigated an email leak of confidential data in the past year and 26 percent said they fired an employee for violating email policies.
The respondent companies indicated they are worried about employees leaking company information on their blogs, message boards, and media-sharing sites such as YouTube, as well as on mobile devices. Eleven percent of the companies surveyed took disciplinary action against employees for improper use of blogs or message boards in the past year, 13 percent for social-network violations and 14 percent for improper use of media-sharing sites.
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