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Article: Ninth Circuit Reaffirms Need For Employers To Establish And Communicate Electronic Monitoring Policies.
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- Mondaq Business Briefing
- Article date:
- February 7, 2007
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The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has confirmed that while employees may have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their workplace computers, an employer who has a policy of monitoring those computers may lawfully access that data and provide it to the government.
The ruling in United States v. Ziegler on January 30, 2007 stems from an attempt by Jeffrey Ziegler, the former Director of Operations of Frontline Processing Corporation, a California-based online electronic payments processor, to prevent the government from introducing child pornography images seized from his company computer at his criminal trial. Frontline had a computer monitoring policy in ...