If your employer, you send a mobile phone/pager questions and you on your personal messages, do you have an expectation of privacy?

My answer: "damn no!"

Apparently was a police officer in Ontario, California his pager use, send to Secually explicit e-Mails to his girlfriend. His boss found out and bad things happened.

His argument? "I had to numbers on the personal messages... so I expect that she would be private?"

This argument makes sense on any level. How, exactly, he thought that anyone would ever be able to decide, what "personally" was and what "work related?"

Well... as is the case get there? The 9th Circuit Court of appeals...(a circuit that contains California) decided that the search violated the fourth amendment explicit private emails after this guy.

My prediction: slam dunk-reversal and a clear decision that if the fight were you with your employer you are lose your job.

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