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Dec
14
2009

Employees’ Right to Privacy Extends to Texts & Emails in Workplace

The U.S. Supreme Court will decide shortly whether to hear the employer’s appeal of the matter, Quon v. Arch Wireless, wherein a 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that employees have a constitutional right to privacy in their text messages, even those containing sexually explicit content sent to co-workers.  The case concerned two police officers [...]