Workplace Email Privacy

This might break EU law, at least e-mails marked private are considered private, so your employer can't snoop in those.

GDPR prevents most of this. There are rules about email snooping, for example: https://www.edps.europa.eu/data-protection/data-protection/r...(presumably someone will be along to say that this is the EU destroying businesses by not allowing them 100% power over the lives of their empl

This is a wild exaggeration. Again, GDPR is not relevant here and private communication on the employer's infrastructure generally caries no reasonable expectation of privacy, at least in the US, double more so when you are actively sharing that email with your team.

The company has an expectation of privacy with respect to those emails. Its employees aren't third parties with respect to it.

That is only according to some law systems though. It does not work like that at all in many European countries. For instance in France the employer cannot read any private conversation (mail/message) of the employee, even when using work email. And no internal rule can change that (it is a criminal offense). If the employer suspects a leak of information by the employee, they can read the message in presence of the employee and a union member, and only in those circumstances.

It isn't private though, but corporate. You're communication is generally not protected as an employee (expectation of privacy etc. depending on jurisdiction) and a lot of things people considers personal (gossip, health, locations) generally isn't protected either.

It's a business tool, paid for by the employer. You shouldn't expect anything you do on there to remain private, just like you should expect your company mailbox to be private.

Because it is illegal in many countries to access somebody's personal communication even if it uses eg. a corporate email address?

Same here. Employers can't even look inside user's mailboxes because there is no guarantee that it doesn't contain anything personal. Even if the company has a rule that you're not allowed to use it for personal things, the law supersedes that and you still can't do it willy nilly.

It really depends on how big the company you work at is and what space they work in.A small company will usually not have that really. A large one has regulators looking at them and someone looking to sue to get a slice of the pie. Your emails and texts are subject to ending up in a legal case. They can use your stuff out of context and say you were doing something else. Remember they will lie about you. As they do not care about truth they want to win for their client (be it the gov or