{"id":645,"date":"2012-06-16T19:20:22","date_gmt":"2012-06-16T19:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncjolt.org\/\/?p=645"},"modified":"2020-06-04T20:54:24","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T20:54:24","slug":"i-spy-something-read-employer-monitoring-of-personal-employee-webmail-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/articles\/i-spy-something-read-employer-monitoring-of-personal-employee-webmail-accounts\/","title":{"rendered":"I Spy Something Read! Employer Monitoring of Personal Employee Webmail Accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Recent Development focuses on a specific type of surveillance: private employers\u2019 monitoring of their employees\u2019 personal webmail accounts, such as Yahoo or Hotmail. First, this Recent Development reviews two recent district court decisions that involve employee use of web-based e-mail accounts at work. The Recent Development then argues that given the unsettled state of the law of employer e-mail surveillance of webmail, the courts should expand the laws allowing employer monitoring to explicitly include personal employee webmail accounts accessed by employees on company computer networks or Internet connections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Recent Development focuses on a specific type of surveillance: private employers\u2019 monitoring of their employees\u2019 personal webmail accounts, such as Yahoo or Hotmail. First, this Recent Development reviews two recent district court decisions that involve employee use of web-based e-mail accounts at work. The Recent Development then argues that given the unsettled state of <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/articles\/i-spy-something-read-employer-monitoring-of-personal-employee-webmail-accounts\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,39,40],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7769,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions\/7769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}