The European Court of Human Rights ruled an employee’s rights were not impinged after a Romanian engineer was fired when his employer checked his Yahoo Messenger, a decision that highlights the breadth of “bosses’ … huge powers to snoop,” The Independent reports. If the monitoring is done for work purposes, studies employee tools that were provided by the company, and the surveillance was stipulated in the worker’s contract, it’s legally allowed, the report states. These stipulations are problematic as they cover “almost every situation where your employer might want to monitor your electronic communications, except where the monitoring is for purely private or spiteful reasons,” argues The Citizens’ Advice Bureau.
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