SBA stumbles on e-mail privacy

The Small Business Administration has issued a temporary directive to prevent officials from accessing employees’ e-mail inboxes without prior approval from the chief privacy officer. SBA published the directive after officials discovered the agency had no e-mail policy to protect whistle-blowers.

SBA officials, with help from the agency’s general counsel and inspector general, also are drafting an agencywide policy that would establish rules for conducting an administrative review of an employee’s e-mail messages and the appropriate authorization needed for such a review.


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