content: Email Confidentiality Notices I see these all the time in emails notices that the content is only intended for the person(s) to which it is addressed. Do these have any use? I ask this as the only way to get an email is if they send it to your exact address even one character being off means it doesn't come to you, and you don't have the issue like with the post office of someone putting it in the wrong mailbox. So the person that gets the email is always the person it was addressed to, I suppose it might be helpful if you are worried about data getting out after an account gets hacked but the hack itself would be a bigger crime then breaking a notice. The notice isn't even an agreement as you can't exactly not agree to seeing the information after you read the email and then see the notice at the end (and they always put it at the end), it would be like submitting a bid on a house and having the last line read "by reading this document you agree to sell the house for the price stated in it". In the case of sending to someone at an office the company owns the account and thus any representative of the company would be a valid viewer of the email even if it was not the person that the sender expected and the company would be allowed to do as they want with the content as you addressed it to them. Is my point of view valid or am I completely off the mark? Below is the most recent one I encountered. CONFIDENTIALITY NOTE: The information transmitted, including attachments, is intended only for the person(s) or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, re-transmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and destroy any copies of this information.