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Focus (Forum & Focus)

Jun. 5, 2007

Criminal Searches at Work

Forum Column - By Laurie L. Levenson - Loyola Law School's Laurie Levenson reveals how two new rulings are making employee privacy on company computers a thing of the past.

FORUM COLUMN

By Laurie L. Levenson

     
      Although many people spend more time at work than they spend at home, the workplace does not offer the same level of privacy for one's possessions. In particular, it is much easier for the government to search a defendant's computer at work than the one that the employee keeps at home. Even if the work computer technically belongs to the employee, it ...

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