Bill Mclaren, Jr. v. Microsoft Corporation

The United States is know for its freedom by many people.This came from all of the country's founding fathers. That was created to make it a place where you can be free. Using the amendments in the constitution for the guidelines to be based off of. One of the know brainers that people expect is the right to privacy. This is not unreasonable, due to most of the fourteenth amendment is saying that you have that right. At the end the right to privacy has mainly been provided for procreation right.

Some people feeling entitled to a right to privacy, is it almost inevitable that differences of opinions would occur in the workplace, and court cases would be raised dealing with an employee's right to privacy. The question that needs to be answered is where a corporation's rights and employee's rights are differentiated. Should employees have a reasonable expectation to privacy? Should companies have a reasonable right to access their employees various tools in the workplace?

In the privacy court case, Bill McLaren Jr. v. Microsoft Corporation, the most fought over is whether a business has the right to intrude on a worker's privacy as it relates to personal emails. Privacy rights can be violated under common law if the intrusion into the private life would be found offensive by a average person. Bill McLaren Jr. was an employee of Microsoft who was under accusation of sexual harassment. As the accusations were looked into, McLaren was denied access to his emails. Unless he specifically requested them and it got authorized. He sent a memo to Microsoft to not tamper with his workstation or his personal email folder. Microsoft later fired McLaren after their investigation was completed. Bill McLaren Jr. brought the court case against Microsoft for invasion of privacy as they entered into his computer and emails, which