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In the United States, private companies' investigative authority over their office premises is constrained by federal and state laws and by employment contracts; companies can conduct reasonable monitoring on work devices and in the workplace, but if it involves analysis of employees' personal items, private communications, or biometric information, it may touch the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) and various state privacy regulations.
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