Supreme Court Holds Argument in Quon April 20, 2010
The Supreme Court yesterday held argument in Quon a case which presents the question of what, if any, privacy interest a state employee has in text messages sent over an alpha-numeric pager provided by his employer.
We covered this way back in podcast 31. This isn’t a great case to address this issue, largely because the police department says they told all the employees they had no expectation of privacy in the text messages they sent. There’s also a wrinkle in that the government says that Quon could have just paid for the overage and not have been subject to the search. Also, the Supreme Court didn’t seem to be able to wrap its head around alpha-numeric pagers, which is worrisome.
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