Also, because messages sent from Web-based accounts do not pass through the corporate mail system, companies could run afoul of federal laws that require them to archive corporate mail and turn it over during litigation. Besides, companies have no control over the life span of e-mails in employees’ Web accounts. “If employees are just forwarding to their Web e-mail, we have no way to know what they are doing at the other end,” said Joe Fantuzzi, chief executive of the information security firm Workshare. “They could do anything they want. They could be giving secrets to the KGB.”
—BRAD STONE / NYT
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