Don't pass on secret information

The temptation of new technology, its sheer ability to transmit at speed, can sometimes corrupt workplace ethics. Modern technology makes it easier to pass on information, it is designed to, but that information must be cleared.

Privacy laws mean that the click of a button does not make the crime of passing on confidential information any less. And it is not just the sender who is in trouble. Even though the receiver was not the instigator they are still criminally liable if they access it.

Any information of a secretive nature does not lose its legal protection just because it appears on your computer screen, mobile phone or because it looks innocent enough buried among all the other emails and attachments.

If information is confidential, it should stay that way and people who think it is funny or humourous and pass it on should be severely punished.