email monitoring
Watching digital correspondence
Email monitoring is the practice of tracking, recording, or reviewing email communications, typically by employers, institutions, or authorities.
Workplace email monitoring is common and often disclosed in employee policies: The company's email monitoring software flagged his message.
The term also covers parental oversight of children's accounts or government surveillance programs.
- surveillanceSystematic observation of subjects
- inboxMessage receiving folder
- sent folderStorage for dispatched emails
- trackingMonitoring location over time
- privacyFreedom from observation
employer · workplace · spyware · oversight · compliance · filtering · keywords · attachments · flagged · corporate · security · logging · alerts · policies · legal compliance · confidential · personal use · snooping
- workplace surveillancescreen recording, keyloggers, bossware, productivity software, screen capture
- surveillancesurveillance, CCTV, security camera, surveillance camera, surveillance cameras
- workplace privacyprivacy policies, privacy policy, personnel files, confidentiality, personal data
- restrictionsban, bans, limits, limit, restrictions
- Legal Powerssubpoena, warrant, search warrant, arrest warrant, seizure
- repressionsecret police, mass arrests, torture, disappearances, detention camps
email monitoringcommunication privacy
Right to private discourse
email privacy · digital privacy · secure messaging · end-to-end encryption · privacy protection
email monitoringburner accounts
Temporary anonymous online profiles
email monitoringworkplace autonomy
Employee control over methods
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