Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
9th Cir: Employee Privacy in Text Messages
The 9th Circuit has held that public employees enjoy a constitutionally-protected reasonable expectation of privacy in the content of text messages they send over employer-provided pagers, even if the employer has promulgated a no-privacy rule, if the employer also has an informal policy of not auditing the content. Here, while the author of the informal […]