Email Privacy Rights
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The growing number of employees with desktop computers and work-provided laptop computers has increased management concerns for balancing ôpotential liability and loss of productivity issues against the employeesÆ rights to privacyö (Beall 4). While privacy rights are generally protected for individuals through the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act, the 1993 Privacy Act, and the Fourth Amendment which reads, ôthe right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures,ö laws pertaining to employee rights and employer rights with respect to electronic communications remain murky at best (Beall 4). In the fast growing environment of the technology-equipped workplace, the law is having a difficult time staying abreast of new developments, particularly with respect to employersÆ rights to ôinspect, monitor, and control their workplace, versus employeesÆ asserted privacy rightsö (Morris A34). This analysis will discuss employer rights to do so versus employee rights to privacy. According to Joan Urdang, if, as an employer, ôyou want to rifle through your employeesÆ email message, rest assured that the courts are on your sideö (18). There is ample evidence in the courts and from corporate statistics that show UrdangÆs statement to be true. In Frasier vs. Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co., U.S. District Court Judge Anita Brody ruled that NationwideÆs access of Fras
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Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page)
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