What worries me enormously: since when do employers have jurisdiction to approve surveillance over their employees outside of work?? : >In November 2017 the FB

What worries me enormously: since when do employers have jurisdiction to approve surveillance over their employees outside of work?? : >In November 2017 the FBI asked for more information. This time, no subpoena followed. Instead, the cancer center’s president, Peter Pisters—then on the job for barely a month—signed a voluntary agreement allowing the FBI to search the network accounts of what a separate document indicated were 23 employees “for any purpose … at any time, for any length of time, and at any location.” Can your employer "voluntarily sign an agreement to permit" (or effectively sign a warrant enabling) the surveillance state to spy on you outside of work contexts? Criticism of the Chinese surveillance state is justified, but before we worry about their surveillance state, perhaps worrying about our own surveillance state would be more in order...