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Re: Regarding employee rights on company equipment

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leslie Todd Masco)
Fri Feb 9 19:48:08 1996

Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 19:34:39 -0500
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: Leslie Todd Masco <cactus@hks.net>

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> From Edupage Feb 8, 1996,
> 
> INTERNET USAGE POLICIES
> Neal J. Friedman, a specialist in online computer law, says that "employees
> are under the misapprehension that the First Amendment applies in the
> workplace --  it doesn't. 

Friedman is only pseudo-right: IE, his arguement makes sense but courts have not
always followed this reasoning, though: if you're really interested in this topic,
investigate rulings where an employer has read an employee's voicemail.

The key concept is "reasonable expectation of privacy."
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