<A HREF="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2162097,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594">Do you know who is reading your email?</A> Has the fact that there is a good chance that your place of work is reading your outbound email, even those that you send from your personal Web mail accounts, changed your behavior? Did you know that more than one-quarter of U.S. companies have fired an employee in the last year for violating email policies?

If your answer to all three of the above questions was "no," you might breathe a sigh of relief to learn that your answers put you squarely in the majority of U.S. employees. But the relief will last only until the implications of these answers set in. The odds are, someone else in your company knows you're reading this article right now.