The law where I live, allows the company to arbitrarily access mailboxes that they own (pay for, or host) for as long as the employee doesn't have an expectation of privacy on the mailbox. Untangling all the implications of the various laws in play is why legal departments are so well funded. Now consider the fact that, almost any "creative expression" in the US since 1978 qualifies for automatic copyright protection and just about any encrypted document that wasn't machine generated can fall under the domain of DMCA, even something as simple as a microblog post or an email. So, as a company you can do whatever you want with the encrypted bits, but as soon as you brute force the password, you've just violated the DMCA unless you own the copyright on it. The DMCA makes circumventing "technological measures" designed to prevent access to copyrighted works a crime in itself. But what if you have a copyrighted document stored on your equipment that your company doesn't own the rights to? The US, for example, is a lot more friendly to the idea of companies monitoring their employee's communications and data than most European nations. It can get very complicated, very quickly. Laws probably vary, but I believe the company/org has the legal right to access any and all documents on their system, including email.
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