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The Ninth Circuit held that a director of operations who downloaded pornographic images of children from the Internet had no reasonable expectation of privacy when it came to material stored in his workplace computer. The images taken from his hard drive were admissible in his criminal trial. The court stated that the employee was aware of the company’s policy to monitor internet activity. “[E]mployer monitoring is largely an assumed practice”. The court thought that a disseminated computer-use policy is entirely sufficient to defeat any expectation that an employee might nonetheless harbor.
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