Sprague on Laws Affecting Work-Related Monitoring (A Survey)

Robert Sprague, University of Wyoming College of Business, is publishing Survey of (Mostly Outdated and Often Ineffective) Laws Affecting Work-Related Monitoring in volume 93 of the Chicago-Kent Law Review (2017). Here is the abstract.

This article reviews various laws that affect work-related monitoring. It reveals that most of our privacy laws were adopted well before smartphones and the Internet became ubiquitous; they still hunt for physical secluded locations; and, because they are based on reasonable expectations of privacy, they can easily be circumvented by employer policies that eliminate that expectation by informing workers they have no right to privacy in the workplace. This article concludes that the future — indeed the present — does not bode well for worker privacy.

Download the article from SSRN at the link.