&gt; you can monitor installed applications without reading the contents of someone&#x27;s gmail tab<p>You should not be using gmail while being paid to do work on someone&#x27;s equipment.<p>A parallel would be if your company used GMail for business purposes. You log into your personal Gmail account instead, and stay logged in. The company needs to gain access to an email from a customer, so they open Gmail on your computer - but discover you are logged into your personal account and can clearly see you have spent your afternoon sending personal emails... not working.<p>Another parallel would be if you were hired to drive a bus route, but decided to use the company owned bus to go shopping instead. You are misusing company equipment, and if they discover that via a typical investigation (such as checking your bus&#x27; GPS location), then they have done nothing wrong.<p>I don&#x27;t see how any reasonable person could argue that this man&#x27;s case was a clear violation of his privacy. This is a typical case of a person misusing equipment&#x2F;breaking the rules, then getting upset that he was caught.