ADVISORY/Leading E-mail Privacy and Policy Authority to Appear On CIO.com's `Ask the Expert' March 15-30, 2001.Assignment/News Editors ADVISORY...for Thurs.-Fri. (March 15-30) --(BUSINESS WIRE)
WHO: Ken Segarnick, Assistant General Counsel, United Messaging,
Inc.
WHAT: Online Forum on E-Mail Privacy and Policy in the Workplace
WHERE: CIO Magazine Online's "Ask The Expert"
( http://www.cio.com/CIO/expert/ )
WHEN: March 15-30, 2001
WHY: To address online privacy & policy issues in the workplace
and Capitol Hill
United Messaging, Inc. today announced Ken Segarnick, assistant general counsel and chair of the company's in-house In-house In the context of general equities, keeping an activity within the firm. For example, rather than go to the marketplace and sell a security for a client to anyone, an attempt is made to find a buyer to complete the transaction with the firm. legislative and policy development team will be available to answers questions concerning employee monitoring and workplace privacy through CIO CIO: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. (Chief Information Officer) The executive officer in charge of information processing in an organization. .com's "Ask the Expert" feature from March 15-30, 2001. Mr. Segarnick has played an instrumental role in shaping e-mail policy issues on Capitol Capitol, seat of the U.S. Congress Capitol, seat of the U.S. government at Washington, D.C. It is the city's dominating monument, built on an elevated site that was chosen by George Washington in consultation with Major Pierre L'Enfant. Hill and in corporate America. Recently he testified before Congress on the Notice of Electronic Monitoring Act (NEMA NEMA National Electrical Manufacturers Association NEMA National Emergency Management Agency NEMA National Emergency Management Association NEMA Nottingham East Midlands Airport (UK) ). Mr. Segarnick conducts E-mail policy workshops and seminars on legal issues surrounding sur·round tr.v. sur·round·ed, sur·round·ing, sur·rounds 1. To extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle. 2. To enclose or confine on all sides so as to bar escape or outside communication. n. web and e-mail usage in the workplace. The share of major U.S companies checking employee e-mail messages has jumped to 27% in 2000, up from 15% in 1997 (source: American Management Association). That trend is expected to increase as companies become more aware of their risk and establish new policies. About 16% of companies that do monitor e-mail do not notify their workers of that policy. Online privacy is high on the agenda for congressional action this year and the NEMA bill, with amendments based in part on Mr. Segarnick's testimony before Congress in 2000, is now being brought before the 107th congress. Log on to (http://www.cio.com/CIO/expert/) to ask Mr. Segarnick about the following topic areas: -- Privacy issues surrounding Internet and e-mail usage in the workplace -- E-mail policy and employee monitoring in the enterprise -- E-mail as a business risk -- Balancing employer security and risk needs versus employee privacy expectations Answers will be posted and archived on the CIO site near the completion of the 2-week session. About United Messaging United Messaging provides smarter enterprise messaging solutions via its hosted messaging and professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. . United Messaging serves enterprises with collaborative, business-critical Microsoft Exchange Messaging and groupware software for Windows from Microsoft. Exchange Server is an Internet-compliant e-mail system that runs under Windows NT/2000 and Windows Server 2003. It can be accessed by Web browsers, the Exchange client, versions of Outlook and the earlier Windows Inbox. , Lotus Notes/Domino, and Internet-based messaging applications. It delivers a unique combination of managed and professional services that increase messaging performance, reliability, scalability and security while reducing operational expense. The company is headquartered in West Chester West Chester, borough (1990 pop. 18,041), seat of Chester co., SE Pa., W of Philadelphia; inc. 1799. Primarily residential, West Chester was long the trade and processing center for an agricultural region that is now mainly suburbs. , PA with facilities across the U.S. and in Europe. For more information, contact United Messaging at www.unitedmessaging.com, or call 888/993-5088. United Messaging is a registered trademark of United Messaging, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned herein are either trademarks and /or registered trademarks of their respective owners in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and/or other countries. |
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