How's your crypto? http://www.startribune.com/viewers/qview/cgi/qview.cgi?template=biz_a_cache&; slug=priv0208 Northwest employees suspected of communicating to encourage a sickout. Some really scary quotes: Nor is all speech on the Internet protected by the First Amendment. Increasingly, courts have been willing to help companies crack down on so-called "cybersmearing" -- bad-mouthing companies or their management online. "Business speech is not subject to the same protections as political speech," said John Roberts, a Minneapolis attorney who specializes in cyberlaw. "You can't say whatever you want about a company." [...] Asked why the union didn't fight harder against the effort to search employees' home computers, Billie Davenport, president of Teamsters Local 2000, said the union complied with the discovery request because it felt it had nothing to hide. [hellow??? because YOU'VE got nothing to hide, you think it's ok to search MEMBERS home computers]. The term 'search warrant' does not appear in the story. The searches were done by Ernst & Young, NOT law enforcement. jay
