Claire Swire e-mail

The Claire Swire e-mail of 2000 was supposedly a very personal e-mail from Claire Swire to Bradley Chait, who worked at Norton Rose, a law firm in London. He forwarded it to six friends, one of whom in turn forwarded it further with the subject line of "Do you know Claire Swire" until it spread worldwide within days, and received wide coverage in newspapers and television. The author of the original email is in doubt, as Chait later alleged that the email was a hoax perpetuated by colleagues [ [http://www.theregister.co.uk/2000/12/12/is_this_the_greatest_ever/ Is this the greatest ever email hoax?] The tale of Claire Swire, swallowing and the new boy at Norton Rose By Kieren McCarthy Published Tuesday 12th December 2000 19:18 GMT The Register United Kingdom] .

Because of its wide coverage, the incident is often cited as an example of the problems that staff can cause to the reputation of their employer (and the risk of embarrassment and disciplinary measures) by forwarding personal or questionable material. [cite web|url=http://www.datasec.co.uk/press/2003_11_01.html|title=HR Perspective on Information Rights Management (IRM) in Office 2003|date=2003-11-01|publisher=DataSec UK Ltd|work=HR Gateway|author=Phil Bowles ] [cite news|url=http://www.theregister.co.uk/2000/12/20/claire_swire_email_claims_nine/|title=Claire Swire email claims nine more victims|author=Kieren McCarthy|work=The Register|date=2000-12-20]

References

Further reading

* — Contemporary Guardian story
* — BBC report on the fate of forwarders
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External links

* [http://claireswireonline.tripod.com/ Claire Swire - the full eMail exchange] plus Norton Rose's later policy change
* [http://management.silicon.com/itdirector/0,39024673,11025866,00.htm Advice to management] quoting this incident
* [http://www.epolicyinstitute.com/press/articles/sink.html ePolicy Institute] article using the incident as an example
*Later [http://www.snopes.com/risque/tattled/luxton.htm examples] of similar incidents