The U.S. Supreme Court today ruled that employers have the right to search through text messages, including personal ones, sent by workers if they have reason to believe workplace rules are being violated. The ruling overturns an earlier decision in a case involving a California police officer who had claimed his Fourth Amendment rights had been violated when supervisors conducted a search of his text messages. The city of Ontario, Calif., had no policy related to text-messaging, but city did, however, have official policies surrounding general computer, Internet and e-mail usage policy.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2125249/ruling-lets-employers-view-worker-text-messages.html