Monitoring Keystrokes Unlawful, Court Holds

Mitch Rubinstein reports over at Adjunct Law Prof Blog the recent decision of Brahmana v. Lembo, ___F.Supp.2d___(N.D. Cal. May 20, 2009), in which a federal court held that an employee stated a claim under the claim under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act by alleging that his employer unlawfully monitored his computer keystrokes in order to obtain the password to his personal email account.

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