Privacy Commissioner- Monitoring of employee’s e-mails OK

An Indian and Northern Affairs employee complained that the institution did not have the authority to restore 35 months of the employee’s e-mails and then review all of the messages contained in the departmental account. The employee alleged that as a result of the department’s actions, the employee’s personal information was improperly accessed. The employee was the subject of an administrative investigation into allegations that the employee was misusing the department’s network.
During the course of its investigation into the complainant’s actions, the institution restored the complainant’s e-mail account and found pornographic e-mails.

http://www.privcom.gc.ca/cf-dc/pa/2007-08/pa_200708_05_e.asp