ABSTRACT
Privacy is a broad legal term that covers a variety of issues, some of them governed by federal law and others by state law. At the federal level, the term is applied to issues such as (1) workplace privacy (such as an employer’s right to administer drug tests to its employees, record their telephone conversations, or examine their electronic mail); (2) personal privacy (such as a school’s right to administer drug tests to its athletes); and (3) electronic privacy (such as law enforcement agencies’ right to wiretap the telephones of criminal suspects).
