Employers increasingly face issues relating to employees' privacy rights.
Technological advances permit employers more access than ever to information about applicants as well as current employees. Inevitably, clashes have arisen between the employer's business reasons for gathering such information and the applicant or employee's right to privacy. Of primary concern to employees is the tort of intentional intrusion upon solitude or seclusion. Liability attaches only when the intrusion is substantial and would be highly offensive to the ordinary reasonable person. The search of an employee's personal property or locker can constitute the tort of invasion of privacy.