A new judgement from the European Court of Human Rights is sure to rustle some feathers, especially among advocates of online privacy in the workplace
The court sided Tuesday with a Romanian engineer’s employer, which monitored the worker’s personal online communication and used his private conversations as grounds to fire him. While the ruling sounds like — and indeed, could be — a dangerous precedent for workers’ privacy, it does not exactly mean any EU company can monitor all their employees’ private chats without warning
In the case of Bărbulescu v. Romania, a Romanian national Bogdan Mihai Bărbulescu was in 2007 been fired for using a Yahoo Messenger account for personal purposes. Bărbulescu initially said he only used the account for business purposes, but his employer — a private Romanian company — then produced a listing of his private messages to his fiancee and his brother. Read more…
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