The Register: UK firms must monitor staff IMs

A U.S. law requiring publicly traded firms to keep track of internal communications - in an attempt to keep them honest on financial reporting issues, among other things - is running up against the ethereal nature of instant messaging. The pop-up messaging is most often not tracked by many corporate IT departments, never mind logged, and a few Europeans are beside themselves with pique that they must monitor the chats due to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.