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A growing number onslaught of business communications, internet access, email, text messaging, telephones and websites, have increased legal and ethical issues of privacy between employers and employees. In order to balance a constant rivalry between the interests of the employer and employee in the communication workplace, it creates the employees’ privacy rights with the responsibilities of the employer. Therefore, the purpose of this research describes the legal privacy rights which an employee has in the workplace through a discussion of a privacy account from a website. I will discuss the article “Campbell v. Woodward Photographic, Inc” (Internet Library of Law and Court Decisions, Martin Samson, 2006) which deals with the invasion of privacy and employee monitoring in business communication.
This is an affirmative article which relates to the electronic surveillance by monitoring e-mail accounts and internet access usage of employees. In the case of Campbell vs. Woodward Photographic Inc, Dwayne Campbell is the production manager of Woodward Photographic, Inc. (WPI) in Bellevue, Ohio. In the late summer of 2004, Woodard Photographic noticed series of suspected thefts of cash and office equipments in their company. Investigators claimed that they found a printout of items in the printer tray from Campbell’s office, which listed some items were identical to the missing equipments. This evidence, together with other facts that pointed out Campbell as the culprit, was used to terminate Campbell. In the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, 2006, Campbell filed a law suit against the company, claiming invasion of privacy. He alleged that the employer had illegal obtained the printout by a ...