Because I'm a person (Score 5, Funny)

The right to privacy falls under the umbrella of humane working conditions, like the rights to a decent wage and a limited workday. To invade someone's privacy without a compelling, situation-specific motive is to insult their dignity as a free human being. Many "rights" for which people clamor amount merely to spoiled selfishness (a fellow I know once told me of our "right" to a department coffee maker), but to invade someone's privacy is a worse insult and a deeper exploitation than is sexual harassment.

It's not my right to use someone else's resources to surf the net at work, granted. But if I am allowed the privilege of doing so, it _is_ my right to have my privacy untrammelled while I'm at it. If a guest at your home asks to use the telephone, you are not obligated to let them. But if you _do_ give them permission, a basic respect for human dignity demands that you not eavesdrop on their conversation by using another phone without their knowledge. And I haven't met the person yet with enough ill-advised chutzpah to inform his guests that all calls made from his phones will be monitored by him without specific permission (which is exactly the stance many companies take in their anti-privacy policies that explicitly warn employees that everything they do is being watched.)

Personal use of company equipment is a privilege. To have my privacy respected while I exercise that privilege is my right.

IHBT (I think)