Big Brother Watching at Work? Not so fast

Workplace Buzz on November 19, 2009 4:24 PM

In past years, courts showed sympathy for corporations that monitored personal email accounts accessed over corporate computer networks. Generally, judges treated corporate computers, and anything on them, as company property. But now, courts are increasingly taking into account whether employers have explicitly described how email is monitored to their employees, The Wall Street Journal reports.

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