Tamedia secures e-mail insight
A new policy has allowed Tamedia to access employees' electronic data and emails since the beginning of the year.
As the newspaper Schweiz am Sonntag writes in its current issue, e-mails from some Tamedia employees contain the footnote "Attention: The confidentiality of your e-mail cannot be guaranteed." The new regulations allow supervisors and work colleagues to access e-mails, electronic data or paper documents "if and to the extent necessary for deputization." As Tamedia spokesman Christoph Zimmer explained to the newspaper, the regulation was introduced "to make transparent the possibility of access that already exists by law." Employees would have to actively protect private data by creating separate filing cabinets.
Some Tamedia employees intervened against the new regulation with the data protection officer, as the protection of sources is particularly important for journalists. The request was unsuccessful. According to Zimmer, however, Tamedia wants to take responsibility for source protection and only access data when all other possibilities to prevent damage have been exhausted. (SaS/hae)
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