{"id":1326,"date":"2016-01-13T19:51:54","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T11:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/13\/employers-can-monitor-workers-private-chats-in-some-cases-court-says\/"},"modified":"2016-01-13T19:51:54","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T11:51:54","slug":"employers-can-monitor-workers-private-chats-in-some-cases-court-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/13\/employers-can-monitor-workers-private-chats-in-some-cases-court-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Employers can monitor workers' private chats in some cases, court says"},"content":{"rendered":"

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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<\/p>\n

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 \u2014 and indeed, could be \u2014 a dangerous precedent for workers’ privacy, it does not exactly mean any EU company can monitor all their employees’ private chats without warning<\/p>\n

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In the case of B\u0103rbulescu v. Romania, a Romanian national Bogdan Mihai B\u0103rbulescu was in 2007 been fired for using a Yahoo Messenger account for personal purposes. B\u0103rbulescu initially said he only used the account for business purposes, but his employer \u2014 a private Romanian company \u2014 then produced a listing of his private messages to his fiancee and his brother. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n

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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 … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[831,974,976,975,732],"class_list":["post-1326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-apps-software","tag-eu","tag-european-union","tag-online-privacy","tag-us-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}