Can employers read an employee’s personal e-mail composed and sent via a corporate computer, and does the employer own that e-mail? Especially if it’s an e-mail to a lawyer, which raises special questions of client-attorney privilege that invoke confidentiality?

There’s often the assumption that all e-mail that employees write on company computers is under the ownership of the company, which when storing it can read it at any time, and companies typically spell out what they consider their rights in a formal  Sponsor: IBM
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