Tweet How much privacy protection are your stored emails and texts hosted by third parties, such as Hotmail or Yahoo, entitled to? In the United States, the privacy of such communications is governed by a federal statute called the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (“ECPA”) and, in particular, a subsection of the ECPA called the Stored …
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Jun 16
OK for Employer to Use Keystroke Tracking Software to Monitor Employee’s Computer
Tweet A New York court has dismissed a criminal complaint brought against an employer who secretly accessed an employee’s personal email account. In People v. Klapper, an employee reported that his employer, a doctor, surreptitiously installed keystroke tracking software on his computer; obtained the password for the employee’s personal email account; and then accessed and printed out documents from that account. The prosecutor’s office charged the …
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