Question

Truckers Dispatch Network, LLC, provides its employees with an email system. The company notifies the employees that it will monitor their communications over the system. Some employees file a lawsuit against their employer, claiming a violation of privacy. The court is most likely to hold that, with respect to communications over the email system,a. the employees did not have a reasonable expectation of privacy.b. the employer violated the employee's privacy rights.c. federal law prohibits the employer's intentional interception.d. federal law prohibits the employee's privacy claim.

Answer 1

Answer:

The answer is: A) the employees did 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.