http://simson.vineyard.net/clips/96.SJMN.PGPBusinessEdition.html [...] PRETTY LOOSE PRIVACY [...] Published: April 2, 1996 BY SIMSON L. GARFINKEL [...] Viacrypt, an Arizona company that sells the popular program Pretty Good Privacy, or PGP, last month announced a new version tailored for businesses. The new program allows companies to ''decrypt'' -- and then read -- information sent to or received by employees without their knowledge or consent. [...] An employee's right to privacy is nebulous at best. The Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 specifically allows companies to monitor the electronic mail of their own employees. That has not stopped Zimmermann from complaining loudly about the PGP name being used in a product that allows someone other than the author or the intended recipient access to information. Viacrypt owns the licensing rights to sell the commercial versions of PGP. ''PGP does not stand for back doors,'' said Zimmermann. ''I don't mind if they sell a program that has a back door in it, but they shouldn't call it PGP.'' [...] ''If your employer can read your mail anytime he wants, without your permission, that goes against the spirit of the PGP trademark,'' said Zimmermann.