Prevalence of Corporate Email Snooping

The practice of corporates snooping on their employees’ outbound emails as well as surveying newer modes of communication like blogs and message boards is alive and kicking. Here are a few numbers on the same:

44% of surveyed companies detected an email leak of confidential information in the past one year
41% of large companies surveyed employed staff to analyze content of outgoing mail
26% of companies terminated an employee in the past 12 months for violating email policies
11% of companies reprimanded employees for misuse of public space like blogs and message boards
14% of public companies noticed a leak of unannounced financial information by employees on message boards or blogs