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DoJ: No REP in any use of a government computer

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

The Washington Post reported late last week that the DoJ Cybersecurity Division issued has written a memo a month ago, released Friday, that employees using government computers for personal use have no reasonable expectation of privacy. The memo is Legality of Intrusion-detection System to Protect Unclassified Computer Networks in the Executive Branch. DoJ's summary: Operation of the EINSTEIN 2.0 intrusion-detection system complies with the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution, title III of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the Stored Communications Act, and the pen register and trap and trace provisions of chapter 206 of title 18, United States Code, provided that certain log-on banners or computer-user agreements are consistently adopted, implemented, and enforced by executive departments and agencies using the system...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on September 22, 2009 (boomark / email).