Can your boss monitor your emails on a google work domain account?

Let me see if I have it right.... You are at work. You are using the work PC. You go into your favorite browser and head to Google (gmail.com). You then proceed to send emails to certain people, maybe people you prefer your boss not know you are emailing, like ex-employees, competitors, etc.

If the IT department at your company has been asked to do so, they can indeed monitor traffic on the work PCs. They will have a list of the websites that you go to, or try to go to, since products like WebSense can block access to certain sites.

If the company is extremely suspicious, they can possibly have web-browsing software installed that triggers an event when you go type in a certain string or name. Let's say your an employee of AT&T. Maybe they decide to monitor all outbound traffic via SMTP or HTML or such. They look for any mention of "T-Mobile". Every time that happens it gets logged to some special list with the date/time, username, and a copy of the webpage that was accessed or email that was sent.

This may sound very "Big Brother is Watching!", but when you are accessing the property of the company (like that PC on your desk), you are indeed using company equipment and they are authorized to do as they please. If that means monitoring employees to see how much time they are spending on the web, or emailing friends instead of customers, or indeed contacting a competitor, they can do that, and some companies do it. There have been people fired from their jobs for that sort of thing, even for posting something on your own Facebook page about the company that would be considered confidential or derogatory.

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