The recent discussion on email privacy provoked me into trying to formalize the employee privacy policy we have here at Digital Research. Currently, there is nothing in writing concerning any privacy issues. Here are some references I have found which some of you might find interesting. It is, unfortunately, all too true that the workplace has become another home for most working Americans.
Many employees spend the better part of their days and much of their evenings at work.
Consequently, an employee's private life must intersect with the workplace, for example, when the employee takes advantage of work or lunch breaks to make personal telephone calls, to attend to personal business, or to receive personal vistors in the office. There are few activities in our society more personal or private than the passing of urine. The majority's acceptance of dragnet blood and urine testing ensures that the first, and worse, casualty of the war on drugs will be the precious liberties of our citizens. The immediate victims of the majority's constiutional timorousness will be those railroad workers whose bodily fluids the Government may now forcibly collect and analyze. Laber Executive's Assoc.