Legal E-Mail and Text Messaging Course

Description

• Once an email has been sent, it becomes a permanent record.
• It’s virtually impossible to erase an email.
• There is an entire industry dedicated to computer forensics
• Computer forensic experts can recover almost any email.
• Destroying a hard drive will not make you safe.
• Most organizations back up all electronic communication.
• Every email leaves an electronic trail on the way to its destination.
• Email is probably on the receiver’s hard drive
• Many organizations save a record of every text sent from their company phones indefinitely.

• The Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 makes any e-mail sent through an organization’s servers or devices property of that organization.
• Emails and text messages sent after work hours and away from the workplace are still your organization’s property if sent with devices owned by your organization. 
• Emails can be subpoenaed with any litigation involving your employer
• Emails can be used in any employment action taken by your organization.
• Over a million employees have been fired or disciplined for the inappropriate use of email.
• Employees should have no expectation of privacy when it comes to email or text messages.

• Confidential information
• Insider Trading
• Viruses
• Copyrighted Information
• Contracts
• Trade Secrets

• Read and understand your employer’s emailing and texting policies.
• Many employers have specific policies related to your organization’s industry requirements.

Author

TrainingABC

141 Courses

For 22 years, TrainingABC has provided high quality employee training content to companies, schools and government organizations around the world.   Currently, over 2000 organizations use Trainingabc courses in their training.

Our courses focus on topics like HR compliance, customer service and leadership take complex topics and make them simple by using video. With sleek, modern, high-definition video, the courses break the language of the topic down into layman's terms making it much easier for employees to understand and retain information.