Deck 18: E-Mail Privacy

Question 1

Privacy protection can be traced back to the ______.

A) First Amendment
B) Fifth Amendment
C) Sixth Amendment
D) Fourth Amendment

Answer 1

Fourth Amendment

Question 2

Your belief that you are entitled to a reasonable expectation of privacy with regard to yourbriefcase, personal mail and other workplace items is referred to as an objective expectation ofprivacy.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

An established rule of law set by previous courts, deciding similar facts and legal issues is defined as ______. (precedent)

Answer 3

NO ANSWER

Question 4

Title III of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 did not protect human-to-computer or computer-to-computer communication.

Question 5

The courts have consistently ruled in favor of the employer in workplace e-mail privacy cases.

Question 6

The court ruled that an employee did not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in theworkplace if tight security and ongoing surveillance at the workplace existed in ______.

A) O'Connor v. Ortega
B) Schowengerdt v. General Dynamics
C) Michael Smyth v. Pillsbury
D) Richard Fraser v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance

Question 7

Similar cases should be decided in a similar way according to the legal concept of ______.

A) precedent
B) reasonableness standard
C) actual malice
D) stare decisis

Question 8

The state that helped pioneer case law concerning workplace e-mail privacy specifically is______.

A) Ohio
B) Pennsylvania
C) California
D) Nevada

Question 9

Most employer privacy guidelines prohibit unauthorized parties from accessing and disclosing employee e-mail and other personal workplace effects.
D. Production Technologies

Question 10

Future workplace e-mail privacy cases are expected to favor the employee.