[AdamSelene235]

It has gone too far. With many salary employees our personal lives are very intertwined with our work lives. I work from home all the time to assist my employer when needed... I think that justifies some amount of privacy while in the office as well.

Unless you have that privacy guarantee in writing, all you have done is sold the company all of your time and all of your privacy at a very low price.

Why do you think the government will stand up for people who are probably unwilling to stand up for themselves?

[StolarStorm]

Oh, I do stand up for myself. I left a former employer because they abused my personal time to a large extent. Most of my comments here reflect my FORMER employer not my current one. And my current manager knows that I will walk if I get grief over petty garbage (like using the internet to buy a present during a massive personal time consuming project) like my former employer did.

That said, employees shouldn't have to leave an employer over silly things, losing pension benefits and seniority. Managers in corporations should have some restrictions on how they treat their employees. Remember, they don't own the company, countless shareholders do. Thus, I believe new privacy rights legislation is a reasonable desire.