Employer's Electronic Communications Policy Negates Expectation Of Privacy In Employee's Work Computer
Adding its voice to the growing body of cases illustrating the importance of electronic communications policies, a federal court in Virginia ruled earlier this year that an employee had no reasonable expectation of privacy in personal files stored on his work computer where his employer maintained a policy that clearly informed him that he should have no such expectation. Walsh v. Logothetis (E.D. Va. Jan. 21, 2014).
The plaintiff in the case, Thomas Walsh, began […]