US Firms Read Employee E-mail On a Massive Scale

Slashdot posts a link to an article about companies that employ staff to read and/or analyze content in outbound e-mail.

Proofpoint found in its fifth-annual study of outbound e-mail data loss prevention issues, that large companies continue to sustain risks from, and take action against, information leaks in outbound e-mail. In fact, 41% of the largest companies surveyed claim to employ staff to read outbound e-mail and 22% of them employ staff exclusively for that purpose.

Outbound e-mail continues to be a key source of risk for U.S. businesses with a record 44% of surveyed companies reporting an investigation of an e-mail leak of confidential information in the past 12 months.

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