Shipping, LLC, provides its employees with an e-mail system. The company notifies them that it will monitor their communications over the system. Some employees file a suit against their employer, claiming a violation of privacy. The court is most likely to hold that, with respect to communications over the e-mail system,

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Veronica

25 October, 17:14

Shipping, LLC, provides its employees with an e-mail system. The company notifies them that it will monitor their communications over the system. Some employees file a suit against their employer, claiming a violation of privacy. The court is most likely to hold that, with respect to communications over the e-mail system,

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The employees do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy.

Explanation:

Reasonable expectation of privacy is included in the Fourth Amendment, and it refers to certain aspects of a person's life that should be private.

People can usually expect privacy at their homes, but once they are outside things can change a little. The law usually protects people from being exposed to humiliating situations in public or the exposure of private details of their life.

In a workplace, things can get even more trickier, since your employer has the right to "invade" your privacy because he has a legitimate interest to know (e. g. security cameras). In this case the employer notified the employees that their communications would be monitored, so the employees cannot argue that they thought they had a reasonable expectation of privacy.