NJ Supreme Court upholds the privacy of personal emails on work computers

[thewayne]

They uphold a lower court ruling that personal emails (webmail, etc) on a work computer have a reasonable expectation of privacy. Very good stuff. The case they ruled on had a person on a work laptop sending email to her attorney via webmail complaining about bosses. Her employer found out and nastiness apparently ensued.

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/03/nj_supreme_court_sets_new_ruli.html

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/04/02/1719202/NJ-Court-Upholds-Privacy-of-Personal-Emails-At-Work?art_pos=22

Comments

[donkey-hokey.livejournal.com]

What a great precedent.

Still, I think I'll continue using my Gmail account in the workplace :) (or send it encrypted)