The Law Regarding Employee Email & Internet Usage

This post is aimed to raise awareness amongst employers regarding their knowledge and implementation of UK law with regard to employee internet and email usage.

Most employers have probably never heard of the legal concept known as "vicarious liability". In simple terms, this means that an employer is declared legally responsible for his or her employees' wrongful actions during the course of their employment.

The boundaries of this principle have been extended in a number of legal cases, and when we are talking about breaches of IT Acceptable Usage Policies (AUPs) applied within an organisation, employers could find themselves implicated for wrongful acts committed by their employees.

Written by Wytech