Executives at Hewlett-Packard created an uproar over their investigation into the phone calling habits of the company's board of directors.

But rank-and-file employees in Maine shouldn't expect much privacy at the office.

In general, workers can expect to have their phone records scrutinized and even recorded and their e-mail perused, especially if the employer warns that it monitors those office communications, said Matthew J. LaMourie, with the firm Preti Flaherty. Have a company-issued cell phone? Expect your boss to check on the calls you're making with it, too.

"Employees don't have an expectation of privacy when it involves the use of their employer's equipment," LaMourie said. "Because it's their equipment, it's their call."

 

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