Yes, your boss can read your Gmail drafts

Re:Yes, your boss can read your Gmail drafts by easton on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @12:27PM (#26891789)

Um, yeah, the administrators for your GSuite instance can read your drafts. Unless your boss is a GSuite administrator, they can't, so they'd have to go ask IT for your drafts which in any sane company would be met with "Why?". This is a standard feature in pretty much every email system as part of the compliance features.

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Re:Yes, your boss can read your Gmail drafts by btown on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @01:59PM (#26893209)

Outside of administrators, drafts may also be accessible if your boss was given access to relevant search terms as part of Google Vault, G Suite's e-discovery functionality. Or if an OAuth service account was created and given domain-wide IMAP delegation, and the data pulled from it is made available to others. All this is extremely powerful and by design.

https://support.google.com/a/answer/2462365?hl=en

https://developers.google.com/gmail/imap/xoauth2-protocol#do...

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Re:Yes, your boss can read your Gmail drafts by Koshkin on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @12:45PM (#26892041)

On the other hand, one can't expect much privacy at the workplace. Even the use of keyloggers could be legal and possibly is widespread.

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Re:Yes, your boss can read your Gmail drafts by notfromhere on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @01:27PM (#26892704)

That’s true but also doesn’t have to be that way

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Re:Yes, your boss can read your Gmail drafts by Scoundreller on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @04:20PM (#26894915)

Hi IT, we got a FOIA request for all of xyz’s drafts.

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