Court Rules Bosses Can Snoop on Private Messages in Work Time

Wednesday, January 13, 2016
By Paul Martin

SputnikNews.com
13.01.2016

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that it is not “unreasonable” for bosses to read the content of private messages of employees in a landmark ruling that critics say blurs the line between illegal monitoring and checking the legal activity of employees.

The court found that Romanian Bogdan Mihai Barbulescu had been sacked from his job after his employers read a series of private messages he had been sending using a Yahoo Messenger account he was asked to create to communicate with clients.

The case dates back to 2007 when Bărbulescu was informed by his employer that his Yahoo Messenger communications had been monitored from 5 to 13 July 2007 and that the records showed he had used the Internet for personal purposes.

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