According to an article on Slashdot, "In its fifth annual study of outbound e-mail and data loss prevention issues, Proofpoint found that 41% of the largest companies surveyed (those with 20,000 or more employees) reported that they employ staff to read or otherwise analyze the contents of outbound email. 22% of these companies said they employ staff primarily or exclusively for this purpose."

I like the logic of the commenter that said the following: "It may be just me, but I get really suspicious when a company in any business sponsors a survey and then uses the results to justify their own existence."

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