Bill Bans Secret Workplace Snooping

jyuter writes "According to this ZDNET article, congress is considering a bill which requires companies to disclose their practices regarding reading employees' e-mails. What puzzles me is this quote from Charles Schumer D-NY, "We would never stand for it if an employer steamed open an employee's mail, read it and put it back. It is the same thing with an employee's e-mail." So it's ok then for employers to steam open employees's mail and give it back to them, provided they tell the employees of this policy beforehand." This would be a very modest proposal indeed - one tiny step for privacy, one giant leap for, well, nothing. Maybe I should be less cynical. Nah.