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Privacy of text messages draws Supreme Court review

USA Today, by Joan Biskupic Posted By: Photoonist- Tue, 20 Apr 2010 05:46:08 GMT Washington ' Supreme Court justices appeared open Monday to a California city's claim that a SWAT team officer should not have expected text messages he sent on a government pager to his wife and, separately, a mistress, to remain private. In a case that could broadly influence policies for government workers' use of employer'issued pagers, cellphones and other electronic devices, Ontario city officials are appealing a lower court decision that said it breached a sergeant's constitutional protection against unreasonable searches when it reviewed his texts, some of them sexually explicit.

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