IP: NW Airlines searches home PC's in labor dispute

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

>From: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>
>To: farber@cis.upenn.edu (David Farber)
>Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 01:35:53 -0500 (EST)
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>http://www.startribune.com/viewers/qview/cgi/qview.cgi?template=biz_a_cache 
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>Court authorizes search of Northwest employees' home computers
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>    Eric Wieffering and Tony Kennedy Star Tribune
>    Tuesday, February 8, 2000
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>    Northwest Airlines last week began court-authorized searches of the
>    home computers of between 10 and 20 flight attendants, looking for
>    private e-mail and other evidence that the employees helped to
>    organize a sickout at the airline over the New Year's holiday.
>    {...}
>    "If Northwest succeeds in gaining access to the hard drives of the
>    home computers of its employees, it will certainly put a chill on the
>    uses employees everywhere make of their home computers," said Beth
>    Givens, director of the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse in San Diego.
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