JDSupra Law News analyzes the recent case in the Northern District of Ohio demonstrating the tension between employer control and employee privacy when it comes to bring your own device (BYOD) policies. In Lazette v. Kulmatycki, an employer read the personal e-mails of a former employee after she turned in her Blackberry device, thinking she’d deleted the account. The employer was found to be at fault, but prosecutors had to stretch a bit to convict him under existing laws. “At a macro level, this case should be a warning to employers to continue to be careful with personal information in a BYOD environment,” the report states. “The potential liability for employers could be significant.”
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