This is actually an interesting question, IMO. But, I think you can quickly see the situation is not inherently symmetric, so the answer can&#x27;t be either.<p>Just one example - giving employees open access to company materials affects the privacy rights of other people, not just the company. So in order to protect the privacy rights you do have vs the company, they will have to restrict other people&#x27;s access to your information.<p>The title of this article is misleading in the sense that the decision was that companies may inspect employees&#x27; PMs that originate from <i>company</i> computers. They did not make a blanket decision that the company may monitor personal phones or personal computers.<p>That highlights how the situation is not symmetric in the sense that you haven&#x27;t loaned your computers to the company in order to produce their personnel files.