The Food and Drug Administration secretly monitored the personal e-mail of a group of its own scientists and doctors. Before, they had warned Congress that the agency was approving medical devices that they believed posed unacceptable risks to patients, government documents show.
The startup screen on FDA computers has warned employees that they “have no reasonable expectation of privacy,” since at least December 2010. But in the suit, the doctors and scientists say the government violated their constitutional privacy rights by gazing into personal e-mail accounts for the purpose of monitoring activity that they say was lawful.
