If you don't want to see your words blown up poster-size in a courtroom, don't hit that "Send" button in your e-mail program without giving it a lot of thought. Legal and business consultants opine that e-mails may be both the fastest growing form of communication and the most dangerous.
It is their permanency that makes them especially problematic. While paper notes can be easily shredded, e-mails are rarely completely obliterated, and distribution to thousands is by the click of a mouse.
Mark Fiedelholtz, a Plantation communications attorney with Effective Communications, Inc. (www.eliabilities.com) said companies are "in a lot of trouble today. You've got insurance agents using e-mail, instant messages, remote access at home, setting up web sites — and they are woefully untrained in the legal consequences. Agents need to start to understand media law and privacy laws. These people are into risk management. How come they aren't applying their own formulas?"
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