Employers in the European Union can read employees’ private messages sent via online chat and webmail accounts during working hours, EU judges have ruled.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) said that a Romanian employer firm that read a worker’s Yahoo Messenger chats sent while he was at work was within its rights. According to the BBC, the employee, an engineer, “had hoped the court would rule that his employer had breached his right to confidential correspondence when it accessed his messages and subsequently sacked him in 2007.”

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