FOI - Employee email and internet searches

Email

1. What is the process to search an employees email at the GLA?

2. How many times in 2016 have managers at the GLA requested employee mail searches ?

3. How many searches of employee email have taken place in 2016?

4. Is employee email searching recorded, and who compares the records to the number of received search requests?

5. Which GLA role(s) has the authority to approve an employee email search at the GLA and how many searches has each role approved in 2016?

6. Who has the authority to approve removing emails from employees mailboxes without employees prior knowledge at the GLA?

7. How many times in 2016 have emails been removed from employees mailbox without their prior knowledge?

8. Has the Head of the GLA had their email searched in 2016 with or without their prior knowledge?

Internet

1. Does the GLA store usernames and passwords for non GLA websites? And is this with or without user knowledge?

2. Who has access to the stored GLA user name and passwords?

3. Does the GLA store users payment card details when the GLA listens in to secure web traffic? If so, how is this stored and who has access?

4. Has intercepting secure web traffic resulted in the prevention of data loss on any occasion in 2016?

5. How much has the GLA spent on preventing data loss via internet traffic interception of its users in the last two years

6.How have BBC users been made aware that the GLA "listen" in on secure web traffic for non GLA websites?

Please confirm how you have generated the numbers requested, and where possible if these numbers can be verified another way.

We are interested in process, volumes and roles only.