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Thursday, June 17, 2010

Supreme Court Ruling Lets Employers View Worker Text Messages With Reason - PCWorld

Supreme Court Ruling Lets Employers View Worker Text Messages With Reason - PCWorld

The U.S. Supreme Court today ruled that employers have the right to search through text messages, including personal ones, sent by workers if they have reason to believe that workplace rules are being violated.

The ruling ( download PDF ) overturns an earlier decision by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in a case involving a California police officer who had claimed his Fourth Amendment rights had been violated when supervisors conducted a search of his text messages. More...

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