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

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