Constitutional rights violated by viewing email accounts without permission?

[Howard B]

I was terminated from a small company. The guy thought I was attempting to steal from him. It was a bogus claim. we had heated phone conversations and he threw something in my face that was a persona. I racked my brain trying to figure out how he knew that. Then it hit me! He logged onto my yahoo email. I guess he had software that tracked by keyboard strokes to get my user name/password. I conducted a test. I wrote a bogus email with a subject matter that I knew would draw his interest. I did not open it - so it would be marked as "unread." A couple of days later, I checked and it was marked "read." BINGO! What I hard written in the body: "Hey (NAME). Please stop logging into my personal email account." I never purused legally. ANd here's why:
1. I was logging onto my yahoo email account on HIS computer during company time.
2. I didn't feel there were damages.
Then I read this story today where a girl sued her school and won based on her Constitutional rights violated by viewing email accounts without permission- for logging onto her Facebook and email accounts.

Anyway, please read that story (link provided) and answer my questions:
1. Were my constitutional rights violated when he vieweed by yahoo email without permission?
2. If so, is it worthy pursuing legally, since he didn't use it to harm me/steal from met, etc.
3. If I pursued, would yahoo cooperate in the investigation?

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/03/27/tee...-password/

[DrunkenObserver275]

the teen used her home computer, you used the companies computer

[Tmess2]

He did not violate your constitutional rights. The Fourth Amendment protects you from a search of your property by the Government (which would include a public school), not by a private individual (which would include an employer).

Depending on the circumstances and the law in your state, you may have some cause of action for invasion of privacy. Whether it is worth it would depend on whether or not you can prove damages (including whether your state law provides for statutory damages). You may want to consult with a local attorney to see you have any real claim for damages.

[pearlmar]

No.

[Inda Cloud]

This is why you don't use the company computer for personal stuff.

[Michael T]

unless you can justify logging onto Yahoo as legitimate research to contribute to the benefit of your contribution as an employee you have zero business accessing non company websites for non company buusiness from your company computer

shortly after the internet first became available companies started developing policies on internet access

what is acceptable and what is not via Company computers

in addition you have Zero expectation of Privacy accessing the net from your employer's hardware

you don't have a leg to stand on

PS it is just as likely that some idiot forgot to log off yahoo from your computer in the rush to get out of the office at 5 oclock any idea who that may have been?

[Patrick B]

1) Go take a Civics course and learn about your constitutional rights, you currently have no clue about them.

2). Stop accessing personal information from a work computer. You're there to work, not to play around.

3). Any information accessed via a work computer is subject to be reviewed by your employer. That means if you open up your personal email account from a work computer, it can be viewed.

4). No one is impressed by your pathetic attempt to "catch" your boss.