Group C

There are about 250 billion emails generated everyday.

There are many problems and risks related to e-mail security like privacy, improper or illegal use, Virus attacks and many more.

All the problems related to emails are increasing everyday.

there are a number of free services that allow users to send self destructing emails:

 1)Big String: recalls and retracts a message after it has been sent based on the number of times the message is read/ the age of the email.

 it also blocks the recipient from copying, forwarding or printing the message

Self destructing email.com-works with the Web based email clients to enable the user to create a one time secure page for the recipient

  Kicknotes.com-self-destruct based on times read and age

Stealth meassage.com- stores encrypted messages(the user can set the self destruct options and messages can't be forwarded

Sdmessage.com(Self Destruct Message)- is wed based and messages self destruct 60 secs after they are viewed

RPost.com-is an add-on to Microsoft Outlook- for a monthly fee of $14.75, RPost alerts the sender that an email is received and opened...it can also verify that the content of the email is not altered

These and many others can be very useful in protecting your email but how is it with the modern corporate law?

They are compatible in certain cases The ability to eliminate, delete, destroy,

or alter e-mails runs flat against the drift of modern corporate law.

E-mails is increasingly playing a role similar to postal mail and contracts in courts. It is even used as evidence of action, intention, and consequence.

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 requires all public firms to develop a reasonable policy of business record retention, including e-mail and instant messages.

A good retention policy cannot be selective, all documents need to be saved

Under the SOX, if you are convicted of changing, altering, or deleting business e-mail that is needed for a judicial process, you can be sentenced for up to 20 years in jail.