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IP: NW Airlines searches home PC's in labor dispute
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 07:02:42 -0500
From: David Lesher <wb8foz () nrk com> To: farber () cis upenn edu (David Farber) Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 01:35:53 -0500 (EST) http://www.startribune.com/viewers/qview/cgi/qview.cgi?template=biz_a_cache &slug=priv0208 Court authorizes search of Northwest employees' home computers Eric Wieffering and Tony Kennedy Star Tribune Tuesday, February 8, 2000 ____________________________________________________________________ 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. ............................ -- A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz () nrk com & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433
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