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Searches Allowed On Employer-Owned Electronic Devices

2010

How the Fourth Amendment applies to electronic searches of computers and and other devices has increasingly come to the attention of the courts. Generally, courts have held that employees do not have the expectation of privacy in regard to information stored on employer-owned equipment. The U.S. Supreme Court, in City of Ontario v. Quon, extends this to text messages on an employer-owned pager.