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IBM says that merely knowing the names of some of their employees is a violation of their privacy and yet their employees post such information to sites like LinkedIn identifying themselves as employees of IBM. And it's well know the kinds of conventions companies use when they compose email addresses for their employees. Common schemes are <firstname>.<lastname>@<company>.com or sometimes it's <first initial><lastname>@<company>.com or even <firstname><last initial>@<company>.com. This is common business practice. Note that IBM has several subdomains and most US employees are in us.ibm.com. Enterprising people might try them all.

Here's a small selection I got from publically available web sites:

Picture	What I think of them	Name	Title	Area
		Naomi Guerrero	Software Engineer, IBM	San Francisco Bay Area
		Ralph Bosco	IT Manager at IBM	Greater Boston Area
		Dennis Griess	GBS Asset Value Program Manager	Greater Denver Area
		Denise Cook	JazzHub Technical Lead at IBM Rational	Greater Denver Area
		Robin Bater	Design Factory - JLIP Scenaro Deisgner at IBM Rational Software
		Donna Fortune	Sr Analytics Developer at IBM Rational Software	Greater Boston Area
		Peter Luckey	IBM / Rational software	Rochester, New York Area
		Jason Bennett	Project Manager at IBM Rational Software	Greater Boston Area
		Jamel Touati	Rational Knowledge Manager | Content & Collaboration | PMP� at IBM Software Group	Canada
		Jamil Bissar	Program Director at IBM	Austin, Texas Area
		Erin O'Connor	Project Management Professional at IBM	Greater Boston Area
		Karen Williams	Integration Executive, IBM	Greater Boston Area
		Kim Messina	Project Manager- Rational PMO at IBM Rational Software	San Francisco Bay Area
		Mary Morton	Project Manager at IBM. PMP Certified.	Greater Boston Area
		Paula Cox	Senior Software Engineer with IBM Rational Software	Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area
		Sika Sullivan	Worldwide Business Development Manager, IBM Rational Software	Greater Boston Area
		Jami Mitchell	Premium Support Manager at IBM	Dallas/Fort Worth Area
		Eric Shen	Manager Market Engineering at IBM Rational	Greater Boston Area
		Denise McKinnon	Knowledge Engineer at IBM Rational	Greater Boston Are
		Amit Vaid	Senior Staff Software Engineer at Rational Software	Gurgaon, India
		Doug Ishigaki	Systems & Software Technical Specialist at IBM Rational	Orange County, California Area

IBM seems to be telling me that I am not allowed to open up a "phone book" and read it! Sorry IBM, but you are not the government and you don't make privacy law. Even the law goes by "expectation of privacy" and it seems clear to me that if you're posting your mug to publically available web sites along with your affiliation with IBM then you should have no expectation of privacy that your name, often your picture, and your employer are somehow "private".

I draw your attention to the Wikipedia article under the heading of United States which states that:

... the renowned tort expert Dean Prosser argued that "privacy" was composed of four separate torts, the only unifying element of which was a (vague) "right to be left alone."[8] These torts were

1. appropriating the plaintiff's identity for the defendant's benefit
   That ain't happening here
2. placing the plaintiff in a false light in the public eye
   I'm not placing anybody in any false light
3. publicly disclosing private facts about the plaintiff
   Seems clear to me that these are not private facts
4. unreasonably intruding upon the seclusion or solitude of the plaintiff
   If the plaintiff wants seclusion or solitude then they shouldn't be rummaging around on my site!