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Employee has no privacy on company computers, US court rules

What's yours is ours Employees do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy for material stored on computers owned by their employers, a US court has ruled.… ...full story at the register (uk)

from the register (uk) on Fri, Sep 05 2008

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