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Article: Text messages ruling raises new questions about employers' privacy policies
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- Lawyers USA
- Article date:
- August 11, 2008
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A recent ruling that employees who were given pagers by their
employer had a reasonable expectation of privacy in text messages
sent through the pagers and stored on a third party server raises
new questions about employers' policies covering electronic
communications.
In Quon v. Arch Wireless, 529 F.3d 892, the 9th Circuit held that
the employer violated employees' Fourth Amendment rights against
unreasonable searches by reviewing text messages, and that the
service provider violated the Stored Communications Act, 18 U.S.C.
[section][section]2701-2711, by handing the text messages stored on
its servers over to the employer.
This is the first circuit to address the issue.
Employment ...
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