Currently, e-mail dominates modern corporate communication. A 1998 survey conducted by Forrester Research, Inc. estimated that 98 percent of all companies with over 1,000 employees have Internet access. According to the International Data Corp., 1998 research revealed that 90 million workers in the United States were sending 1.1 billion business e-mail messages per day. An estimated 1.5 billion messages will be sent each day by the end of 2002.

A U.S. government task force says that “E-mail monitoring of actual communications and communicatiors may impinge on the Constitutional rights of freedom of speech, against unreasonable search and seizure, and against self-incrimination, as well as on the right to privacy,specifically as set forth in both the Privacy Act and the ECPA (Electronic Communications Privacy Act). According to preliminary data from the American Management Association (AMA), as of the first quarter of 1999, nearly 30 percent of major companies currently monitor employee e-mails. This figure is up ten percent from the previous year. A software company whose software reads incoming and outgoing messages has doubled sales every year since 1996. The AMA found that only 84 percent of participating companies inform employees of their communication monitoring policy. According to a study, the AMA found the financial se

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