End Notes

1. Kyllo v. United States, _______U.S. ______(June 11, 2001).

2. Charmine E. J. H rtel, "Vantage 2000: Romance in the Workplace and I/O Across the World," University of Queensland, Australia, January 1998).

3. "SHRM Survey Finds Office Romances Are Often Frowned upon by Employers," Press Release, Society for Human Resource Management (January 28, 1998).

4. New York v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., 621 N.Y.S.2d (N.Y. App. Div. 1995).

5. Dana Hawkins, "Who's Watching Now?," U.S. News & World Report (September 15, 1997).

6. Art Bell, Ph.D., "Romance at Work," McLaren School of Business, University of San Francisco, n.d. Available online at www.usfca.edu/fac-staff/bell/article16.html.

7. The corporation was given five years' probation, however, and fined $500,000 for its obstruction of justice.

8. Opening Brief on the Merits, Intel Corp. v. Hamidi, Cal. Supreme Ct. No. S103781, May 16, 2002.

9. Claire Cooper, "High court to hear Intel e-mail case," Sacramento Bee (March 28, 2002).

10. Opening Brief on the Merits, Intel Corp. v. Hamidi, Cal. Supreme Ct. No. S103781, May 16, 2002 (citations omitted). A decision by the California Supreme Court is expected some time in 2003.

11. Noam S. Cohen, "Corporations Try to Bar Use of E-Mail by Unions," The New York Times (August 23, 1999).

12. Under the terms of a SLAPP statute, a defendant (usually an individual employee) can compel the plaintiff (usually a corporation) to demonstrate that it is likely to prevail on the merits of its defamation claim before the suit can go forward. The statute is intended to reduce the ability of well-heeled corporations from intimidating Web posters with the threat of an expensive lawsuit.

13. Joann Muller, "Trouble on the Internet ...", Boston Globe (October 23, 1998).

14. Law enforcement uses the same techniques. Officers and federal agents are trained to lurk in sexually-oriented chat rooms, pretending to be young children, and to track down users who solicit them for sex.

15. Employees should keep in mind that as a practical matter, there is little chance of remaining anonymous if they use their employer's computer and network to post messages, even if they use an anonymous e-mail account or remailer. Using a variety of software, an employer can easily record the content of messages long before they are dispatched to the anonymous remailer.

16. Pamela Mendels, "The Two Faces of Online Anonymity," The New York Times (July 21, 1999).

17. Tom Kirchofer, "Raytheon Drops Internet Chat Suit," Yahoo! News (May 21, 1999).

18. Order Granting Defendants' Special Motion to Strike, Global Telemedia International, Inc. v. Doe 1 et al., 132 F. Supp. 2d 1261 (C.D. Calif. February 23, 2001) (citations omitted).

19. "Electronic Monitoring in the Workplace," Workrights.org, n.d.

20. Dolores Kong, "Big Brother may be watching you," Boston Globe (October 22, 2000).

21. James Bandler, "Office porn cases raise issues of privacy, protection," Boston Globe (June 24, 1999).

22. As a Playboy Cover Girl, Shaya was paid $100,000 for her pictorial.

23. "Cop Poses in Playboy," Extra (May 30, 2001).

24. Ironically, Los Angeles is getting a police chief with experience in this area; William Bratton was just appointed to head the department.

25. Mike Brunker, "Cyberporn nurse: 'I feel like Larry Flynt'," MSNBC (July 16, 1999).

26. Luke Reiter, "Arizona nurses' porn site led to their dismissal," ZDNet (July 19, 1999).

27. "Police officer suspended over wife's Internet porn pics," Ananova.com (March 9, 2001).

28. "Federal Agencies Propose Adverse Rules on Health Insurance Coverage for Riders," Press Release, American Horse Council (March 26, 2001).

29. "Lifestyle Discrimination," American Civil Liberties Union, 1998. Available online at www.aclu.org/issues/worker/legkit5.html.

30. City of North Miami, Florida v. Kurtz, 653 So.2d 1025 (Fla. Sup. Ct., April, 1995), cert. denied.

31. City of North Miami, Florida v. Kurtz, 653 So.2d 1025 (Fla. Sup. Ct., April, 1995), cert. denied.