Boss hacked into my email a/c: AI worker

Mumbai: An Air India (AI) employee has lodged a complaint with the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) against one of its directors for hacking into his private e-mail account and later asking him to explain about his chat discussions. Under the law, hacking into anybody's email id is a punishable offence.
Till June 5, 2009, SK Jadhav (name changed) a senior check flight purser with AI was unaware that the chats he was having with his other colleagues and friends on a private forum were monitored.
"One day I got a letter from the director, in-flight service department, Manjira Khurana asking me why action should not be initiated against me by the company.She produced certain documents/transcripts which were allegedly obtained through chats/blogs," says Jadhav. He found it weird as it was a discussion on private forum of cabin crew members and nobody can access it without invitation.
"Any chat/conversation/blog/post outside the office premises in private/closed forum cannot be construed as a violation of company rules by any stretch of the imagination," says Jadhav.
According to Satish Borulkar, former public prosecutor, Bombay high court, this is a clear case of breach of privacy. "No employer, colleague or anyone can hack into anybody's account.It is also a case of breach of IT Act," says Borulkar.
Even Rakesh Maria, Joint commissioner of police (crime), Mumbai confirms with the same view."..I will ask our cyber crime officials to look into the matter.Let the person come forward and lodge a complaint with us and we would look into the matter," said Maria.
27/08/09 Naveeta Singh/Daily News & Analysis

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Categories: NACIL Aug 2009