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Is it legal for your work to sieze your laptop you are using, even if the laptop doesnt belong to the company?

  • I am in a overtime lawsuit with my employer. They took everyones work laptop to find e-evidence for the lawsuit. I heard that is legal. The problem is, the laptop I use doesn't belong to my employer, it belongs to a customer we do services for. So it is not their equipment. . .how can they invade my privacy and my customers privacy, just because I am in a lawsuit with my employer? Has anyone heard of similiar situations? thanks so much. .

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    Your "privacy"? That laptop is work-related so you have no privacy there, it's sole purpose is for your job. I suggest you contact the company that provided the laptop and tell them what happened with their laptop. But beyond that, if you are in a lawsuit and they took the laptop to prove their side, you need to talk to an attorney about it and get legal advice, not advice on Yahoo Answers.

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I've seen this before, it never happened to me but what I used to do was boot to an external usb drive running linux, so all my data was safe. After I would disconnect the external usb drive and no one was the wiser. Some system admins think they're clever by disabling the boot function in the bios for usb drives/cdrom, etc. In this case I always kept an extra hard disk in my bag, I'd open the case, disconnect the original, connect mine, then boot to my linux, voila. But I think you're in a pickle where they have the latop, I hope you backed any important data needed for the lawsuit.

If you are in a lawsuit with your employer then your own lawyer should be advising you about this sort of thing.

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