Ariel Cudkowicz, Kent Sinclair and Erik Weibust Published in the Boston Bar Journal
“Technology and Privacy in the Workplace: Monitoring Employee Communications After the Supreme Court’s Quon Decision”
Fall 2010

In this article recently published in the Boston Bar Journal, Seyfarth attorneys focus on the case of Quon v. City of Ontario where a police offer alleged that the City of Ontario’s search of his employer paid pager had violated his privacy rights and led to wrongful disciplinary action. The United States Supreme Court sided with the City of Ontario based on the employer having legitimate reasons for the search. The authors recommend that companies establish and consistently enforce technology use policies that explicitly define the specific types of technology they are intended to cover and explain that employees have limited expectations of privacy in the workplace.