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European Court of Human Rights

European Court Rules Bosses Can Snoop On Employees’ Private Messages

According to a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights, employers have the right to monitor their workers’ online private messages. The Strasbourg court sided with the employer of a Romanian engineer who was dismissed from his job after using Yahoo Messenger to communicate with his fiancée and brother while at work. The Independent reports: Bogdan Mihai Barbulescu was asked to create the Yahoo account in order to answer clients’ queries.