Police can search your work PC
p2pnet.net News:- All police need to search your work PC is the permission of the company that owns the computer, a Washington state appeals court has decided.
No warrant necessary.
"In April 2003, when Jack Leck briefly worked at a nonprofit organization called the World Peace Ambassadors, he allegedly used an office computer to do Web searches for preteen boys and girls and participate in related mailing lists from his Hotmail account," says CNET News.
"When police showed up with some questions, the nonprofit group permitted that computer to be seized without a warrant."
Leck claimed this violated his Fourth Amendment right to privacy but, "Leck did not share equal authority with (the nonprofit’s director) over the WPA office or computer, thus, Leck’s consent to the state’s search was not necessary," wrote Judge Marywave Van Deren, says CNET.
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forced – Court: No warrant needed to search your work PC, CNET News, Januarfy 5, 2005
January 6th, 2005 at 7:57 pm
It is utterly stupid to keep anything personal or private on your work pc.
The employer has full access to it, and you should expect audits, especially if you’re using several Gb of data with, say, movies.
You might be okay if you encrypt stuff (or you might not), but don’t keep personal data on a pc that is not yours unless you want it made public.
Besides, USB memory storage devices are available to carry with you anything you might want.
January 6th, 2005 at 10:21 pm
seems reasonable enough.
-P2PGURU4U
January 8th, 2005 at 7:47 pm
USB memory storage is not large enough, unless you only have mp3s.
Try getting a DVD on one. The largest devices are about 512MB
and expensive.