| Court Rules Against Man in Computer Porn in Workplace |
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Jeffrey Ziegler had argued that his Fourth Amendment rights against
unreasonable searches and seizures should prevent the government from
using evidence that he had viewed many images of child pornography at
work.
The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals based in San Francisco cited
similar past cases and found that even if some people lament the lack
of privacy at work, the law was against Ziegler.
"Social norms suggest that employees are not entitled to privacy in
the use of workplace computers, which belong to their employers and
pose significant dangers in terms of diminished productivity and even
employer liability," Diarmuid O'Scannlain wrote for a three-judge
panel.
"Employer monitoring is largely an assumed practice, and thus we think
a disseminated computer-use policy is entirely sufficient to defeat
any expectation that an employee might nonetheless harbor."
Copyright 2006 Reuters Limited.
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