Within the EU, companies are obliged to balance workplace surveillance
with employees privacy rights – ruled the European Court of Human Rights. The
Strasbourg court reversed its earlier ruling from last year when a lower
chamber of the court found no privacy issue with workplace communication
monitoring. This is the first case when Europe’s top human rights body touches
the issue monitoring of electronic communication at work. Ruling was based on a
case that started in August 2007, when Bogdan Mihai Bărbulescu of Bucharest, was fired for personal use of Yahoo Messenger at work.
Tech & Rights
ECHR: Employees cannot be fired for the use of social media at work
Within the EU, companies are obliged to balance workplace surveillance with employees privacy rights – ruled the European Court of Human Rights. The Strasbourg court reversed its earlier ruling from last year when a...
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