A New Lawsuit Could Set Boundaries on Employers Accessing Your Devices

guest · Sep 12, 2018

A New Lawsuit Could Set Boundaries on Employers Accessing Your Devices
Are employers invading workers' privacy?
September 12, 2018
https://www.nextgov.com/analytics-d...-accessing-your-devices/151189/?oref=rf-river

In exchange for a shiny new computer, they sign away their digital rights. The thinking goes that as long as an employee is on a work device, the employer has the right to monitor what you type.

But what exactly constitutes a work device?
That’s the central question in a new court case brought by Paul Iacovacci against his former employer, Brevet Capital Management. As first reported in The Wall Street Journal [...] is suing the finance firm for accessing his home computer to read his personal information in an alleged violation of federal antihacking laws.

Employee privacy rights have become more and more relevant as the line between personal and professional blur. Nearly two-thirds (64%) of employees use a personal device to do their work [...]

But according to [...] an employment lawyer [...] “Your expectation of privacy flows with property,” [...] “You should have a much lower expectation of privacy when work owns any part of the equation—from the device to the email address to the WiFi network.”
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mirimir · Sep 12, 2018

Ummm, this machine was owned by his (just recently) former employer.

So he had no expectation of privacy. Maybe some moral entitlement, but no practical expectation.

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