Is an employer-owned computer available to an employee?
Canada (Federal), Canada
The following excerpt is from R. v. Cole, [2012] 3 SCR 34, 2012 SCC 53 (CanLII):
The context in which personal information is placed on an employer-owned computer is nonetheless significant. The policies, practices, and customs of the workplace are relevant to the extent that they concern the use of computers by employees. These “operational realities” may diminish the expectation of privacy that reasonable employees might otherwise have in their personal information (O’Connor v. Ortega, 480 U.S. 709 (1987), at p. 717, per O’Connor J.).
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